“I will be voting against this resolution,” he said on the floor. “A vital national security risk is clearly not at play, there are just too many unanswered questions about our long-term strategy in Syria, including the fact that this proposal is utterly detached from a wider strategy to end the civil war there.”
The Republican leader has declined to take a position in the debate so far. His remarks come the day after President Barack Obama revealed that the U.S. is exploring a diplomatic resolution in which Syria would surrender control of its chemical weapons to the U.N.
McConnell warned that the plan is “still a long way off to reaching an agreement at the United Nations” but said it’s “worth exploring.”
The decision makes McConnell the only one of the four congressional leaders to oppose military action.
