Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez has criticized US President Barack Obama for not having a strategy about the situation in Syria.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday’s hearing left me bewildered that this government does not have a strategy as to Syria,\u201d Menendez told CNN on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems that we’re having meetings about how we get to meetings in Geneva, while Syria is becoming the Somalia of the Middle East and attracting an all-star cast of violent extremists,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He made the remarks following a Thursday Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the conflict in Syria.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s beyond my imagination that at this stage we don’t have a comprehensive plan to try to get Syria into a different track,\u201d the New Jersey senator said.<\/p>\n
Menendez also noted that he would talk about Syria with Secretary of State John Kerry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is I heard no comprehensive, cohesive strategy,\u201d said Menendez. \u201cThis is not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since March 2011.<\/p>\n
The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have lost their lives and a total of 7.8 million others displaced due to the violence. A very large number of the militants operating inside the country are also foreign nationals.<\/p>\n
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