On the Senate floor, promised that the resolution will get the debate that it deserves.
“It’s a clear violation of human decency,” Reid said of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons to murder more than 1,000 of his own people. “This brutality demands a response.”
He invoked the Holocaust and various other crimes of the last century to argue that the U.S. mustn’t turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Assad, in violation of the international norm against using chemical weapons.
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality,” Reid said.
