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From the Liveblog of
Saturday, August 31, 2013
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, August 31, 2013
I don’t need UN approval
The president says he is “comfortable” proceeding without UN approval.
He says he believes he has the authority to act without Congress’s okay, but believes in the strength of winning Congressional approval.
“I respect the views of those who call for caution,” he says. But “we must acknowledge the costs of doing nothing… What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight, and pay no price.”
How will we stop others — governments that would build nuclear arms — he asks, if we do not follow through “on the values that define us.”
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