A new poll has revealed that the American people still oppose US military action against Syria as they overwhelmingly support the diplomatic agreement between the US and Russia over Syria™s chemical weapons.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which began Thursday and concluded on Sunday, showed that about 80 percent of Americans support an agreement reached Saturday between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a framework for Syria to verify it is eliminating all its chemical weapons.
The results from the poll also showed that the administration of President Barack Obama faces strong public opposition in its call for military strikes against Syria.
According to the survey, 61 percent of Americans are against any US plans for military action against the Middle Eastern country.
This comes as the US, Britain, and France have threatened the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the use of force if it fails to stick to the recent deal.
The three Western veto holders of the United Nations Security Council called for a tough UN resolution with binding deadlines after Kerry briefed top diplomats from France and Britain in Paris on Monday on the deal he reached with Lavrov two days earlier.
Lavrov said Monday that any calls for swift UN action against Syria shows a œlack of understanding” of the recent deal and warned that threatening Damascus with military force and UN resolutions could wreck peace talks aimed at resolving the crisis in the Arab country.
Kerry also held a private meeting with his Turkish counterpart and had lunch with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal during his visit to Paris on Monday.
Kerry™s visit to Paris came one day after he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in al-Quds in order to assure Washington™s staunch ally in the Middle East that the deal would be capable of removing Syria™s chemical weapons.
The Obama administration has accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons in an attack near capital Damascus on August 21.
Damascus has categorically rejected the allegations and even Obama™s top aide, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, admitted that Washington™s claims were based on a œcommon-sense test” not any œirrefutable” evidence.
Meanwhile, according to a classified document from the US intelligence community™s National Ground Intelligence Center obtained by WND, the US military knew that foreign-backed militants in Syria had sarin gas and used it in an attack on civilians and Syrian government forces last March.
Based on the leaked document, former director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Yossef Bodansky argues that the chemical attack of August 21 near Damascus was perpetrated by the militants to provoke a US military intervention in Syria.
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