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  • Almost three weeks ago in Syria, more than 1,000 innocent people -- including hundreds

  • of children -- were murdered in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century.

  • And the United States has presented a powerful case to the world that the Syrian government

  • was responsible for this horrific attack on its own people.

  • This was not only a direct attack on human dignity; it is a serious threat to our national

  • security. There's a reason governments representing 98 percent of the world's people have agreed

  • to ban the use of chemical weapons. Not only because they cause death and destruction in

  • the most indiscriminate and inhumane way possible -- but because they can also fall into the

  • hands of terrorist groups who wish to do us harm.

  • That's why, last weekend, I announced that, as Commander in Chief, I decided that the

  • United States should take military action against the Syrian regime. This is not a decision

  • I made lightly. Deciding to use military force is the most solemn decision we can make as

  • a nation.

  • As the leader of the world's oldest Constitutional democracy, I also know that our country will

  • be stronger if we act together, and our actions will be more effective. That's why I asked

  • Members of Congress to debate this issue and vote on authorizing the use of force.

  • What we're talking about is not an open-ended intervention. This would not be another Iraq

  • or Afghanistan. There would be no American boots on the ground. Any action we take would

  • be limited, both in time and scope -- designed to deter the Syrian government from gassing

  • its own people again and degrade its ability to do so.

  • I know that the American people are weary after a decade of war, even as the war in

  • Iraq has ended, and the war in Afghanistan is winding down. That's why we're not putting

  • our troops in the middle of somebody else's war.

  • But we are the United States of America. We cannot turn a blind eye to images like the

  • ones we've seen out of Syria. Failing to respond to this outrageous attack would increase the

  • risk that chemical weapons could be used again; that they would fall into the hands of terrorists

  • who might use them against us, and it would send a horrible signal to other nations that

  • there would be no consequences for their use of these weapons. All of which would pose

  • a serious threat to our national security.

  • That's why we can't ignore chemical weapons attacks like this one -- even if they happen

  • halfway around the world. And that's why I call on Members of Congress, from both parties,

  • to come together and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in; the kind of world

  • we want to leave our children and future generations.

  • Thank you.

Almost three weeks ago in Syria, more than 1,000 innocent people -- including hundreds

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2013 09 07 週刊講演。シリアでの限定的な軍事行動を求める (2013 09 07 Weekly Address: Calling for Limited Military Action in Syria)

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