The president closes by channeling his predecessor, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said that “Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”

Obama emphasizes that America’s “ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria.”

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