Four senators introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit U.S. President Barack Obama from Syria's military assistance to the rebels, he said, the government has provided too little information, they see an adventure intervention.
The bill would prevent the use of any funds to support the Syrian military, paramilitary or covert operations, directly or indirectly, from the Department of Defense and U.S. intelligence agencies.
The bill's sponsor - Democrat Tom Udall of New Mexico and Connecticut and Republican Mike Lee of Utah and Kentucky's Rand Paul Klee Rhys Murphy - expressed doubts about Washington's ability to ensure that weapons will not be fall into the wrong hands, and told the debate in Congress before the United States became more involved in the civil war in Syria.
Paul said in a statement: "The president's unilateral decision to armed Syrian rebels are incredibly disturbing, given what little we know of our armed."
Other members of Congress that it is in the U.S. national security interests, to get more involved in Syria.
"" This is about finding terrorist actors in Syria has been proposed in this struggle of the possibility of a failed state can launch an attack our allies, and possibly the United States, New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters.
After months of equivocation, Obama decided a week ago, trying to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's military assistance to the rebels, citing Assad government's two-year-long conflict in the use of chemical weapons.
Since the work plan for the government to win more support in Congress. Secretary of State, John Kerry, a former senator, has been on Capitol Hill, at least twice a week, so that the management of the case, Congressman.
On Tuesday, he had leaders from both sides of the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives Chairman of the Committee a confidential briefing.
On Thursday, Kerry had at least three presentations: House Intelligence Committee, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, other senators second and third.
Many members of Congress, especially in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives plans to armed rebels are still deeply suspicious, questioning when other programs are cutting costs and worries, U.S. weapons might fall into the wrong hands.
Other military aid to promote a few months, especially some of Senator Barack Obama for his condemnation of the failure of intervention in the conflict, more than 90,000 people were killed.
Last month, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in favor of a bill to provide lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition 15-3. This measure not yet reported to the full Senate vote.
Paul Murphy and Udall three members voted against the bill "diplomatic relations" panel.
 
 



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