Obama: Syria A ‘World Problem’

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Asked why the U.S. has military been absent in dealing with the bloody civil war in Syria, President Barack Obama emphasized that the international community as a whole must deal with the Assad regime together.

“I want to make sure we’re responding as an international community to deal with this problem,” Obama said at a joint-presser with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. “Syria is a world problem.”

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