Obama: Syria Military Intervention Not Needed To Resolve Conflict

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it is important to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria without outside military intervention.

Obama says not every situation allows for the type of military action the U.S. and allies took in Libya, which led to the removal of Moammar Gadhafi last year.

The president says a negotiated solution in Syria is possible. He defended his administration's handling of the violence there, saying the U.S. has been "relentless" in demanding that President Bashar Assad leave power.

However, an Obama-supported resolution at the U.N. Security Council was vetoed this weekend by Russia and China. The resolution would have backed Arab League plan aimed at moving Assad in the direction of a peaceful transition to democracy in his violence-wracked country.

Obama spoke during an interview on NBC's "Today" show.

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[OzzieTonto]

10:44 PM on 02/07/2012

Obama must know how toxic to his re-election chances is a messy conflict he's sticking Americans into.

[godsamyth]

01:41 PM on 02/07/2012

Is it some coinsidence that the main noticable opposition to assad is in the area nearest to lebanon where to US has ties to the christians the US is not whiter than white in this matter as usual

[ByThePowerOfGrayskull]

03:27 PM on 02/06/2012

From the article: "an Obama-supported resolution at the U.N. Security Council was vetoed this weekend by Russia and China."

I thought the rest of the world was supposed to love and support President Obama and his actions. What on earth went wrong?

[Xoubuo]

02:09 PM on 02/06/2012

It may get to the point where either EU, US, Nato or even Israel may have intervene to help clean up that mess