John Kerry warned that the United States may have to resort back to military action against Syria if negotiations to remove the country’s chemical weapons fall short. Kerry arrived in Geneva earlier today to meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, about the proposal to put Syria’s chemical weapons in the control of the international community.
“Should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade Assad’s capacity to deliver these weapons,” Kerry said. “It won’t get rid of them, but it could change his willingness to use them.”
He reiterated the Obama administration’s recent preference for finding a diplomatic solution instead of striking militarily, as it had previously threatened.
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