White House National
Security Advisor tries to head off possible settlement
Early Monday afternoon in Washington, the president's National Security Advisor Susan Rice gave a scheduled speech at the New America Foundation, founded in 1999 as a non-profit, public policy institute whose stated mission is to "invest in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States."
Without matching previous National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's fear-mongering on Iraq ("we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"), Susan Rice came close, taking a hard line in favor of attacking Syria and saying that:
" Syrians attacking Syrians with chemical weapons is a "serious threat to our national security" and that such attacks could "threaten our soldiers in the region and even potentially our citizens at home."
" "We cannot allow terrorists bent on destruction, or a nuclear North Korea , or an aspiring nuclear Iran , to believe for one minute that we are shying away from our determination to back up our longstanding warnings. " Failing to respond to this brazen attack could indicate the United States is not prepared to use the full range of tools necessary to keep our nation secure."
" "Leaders in Tehran must know the United States means what we say. If we do not respond when Iran's close ally, Syria, uses weapons of mass destruction, what message does that send to Iran?"
" "Opening a door to their use anywhere threatens the United States and our personnel everywhere."
Rice apparently did not talk about the United States helping Iraq to gas Iranian soldiers and civilians during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. She did scoff at any further attempts at a diplomatic solution.
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