RSS Feeds  Senators to Obama: Arming Syrian rebels not enough
Tuesday - 6/18/2013, 6:50pm  ET  Associated Press  WASHINGTON
(AP) -- A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that
President Barack Obama take more decisive action to stem the
military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.
Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez and Carl Levin and Republican
John McCain say in a joint letter to Obama that Syrian
government forces are advancing so dramatically that providing
weapons to the opposition alone is unlikely to shift the war
back in the rebels' favor.  The administration last week
authorized lethal aid to the rebels. But it isn't trying to
enforce a no-fly zone or otherwise intervene militarily to halt
a war that has killed almost 93,000 people.  The senators say
the U.S. should consider targeting regime airfields, runways and
aircraft, and help rebels establish safe zones in Syria.