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Obama Defends Decision Not to Militarily Intervene in Syria

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US President Barack Obama said that American interests are at stake as Syria's two-year-old war continues to rage.

In an exclusive interview with CNN's "New Day" that aired on Friday, Obama defended his administration's decision to not intervene militarily in the Syrian crisis so far.

"I think it is fair to say that, as difficult as the problem is, this is something that is going to require America's attention and hopefully the entire international community's attention," Obama said.

Obama said the United States, along with United Nations inspectors, were gathering information on the attack, but that preliminary signs point to a "big event of grave concern."

On August last year, Obama had set his "red line" for military intervention in Syria in case "whole bunch of chemical weapons [are] moving around or being utilized."

However, Syria denied the allegations first published by al-Arabiya channel that the government launched a chemical attack in eastern al-Ghouta.

Moreover, comments by a top Syrian official described that the use of chemical weapons, especially with the UN mission probing the use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal currently in Syria, as "political suicide."

For his part, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey opposed even limited military intervention in the Syrian war because insurgents wouldn't support US interests.

Dempsey considered that a military approach would plunge the United States deep into another war in the Arab world and offer no strategy for peace.

"Sometimes what we've seen is that folks will call for immediate action, jumping into stuff, that does not turn out well, gets us mired in very difficult situations, can result in us being drawn into very expensive, difficult, costly interventions that actually breed more resentment in the region," Obama viewed in the CNN interview.

Source: CNN, edited by website team