Unilateral is as unilateral does
Since both Russia and China would block any United Nations Security Council resolution approving an attack on Syria, and now that the British people have told their government they don’t want to participate, Obama has no one else to act with him, should he choose to go ahead with his bombing.
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Faced with a total lack of international help, Obama is scaling back his bombing plans. “Here, what’s being contemplated is of such a limited and narrow nature that it’s not as if there’s a similar imperative for bringing in different capabilities from different countries,” a senior administration official told The Wall Street Journal.
A skeptical Congress
More than 100 House Republicans have signed a letter, written by Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., demanding that Obama seek approval from Congress before he bombs Syria. And they are not alone.
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