In multi-hour talks today with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama reiterated that the US “reserves the right” to attack Syria militarily despite a previous deal with Russia to pursue a negotiated settlement to the nation’s ongoing civil war.
At the same time Obama insisted that the US would notattack Syria unilaterally, but would only do so as part of a broader alliance of attacking nations, saying the US had “no magic formula for dealing with an extraordinary violent and difficult situation like Syria’s.”
Erdogan is keen to get President Obama to talk up military action on Syria because he blamed the Assad government for bombings in the border town of Reyhanli over the weekend. Protesters in southern Turkey have blamed Erdogan’s government, however, and his policy of backing Syria’s rebels .... http://news.antiwar.com
