With Claims of Chemical Warfare in Syria, Have We Reached a Tipping Point?
Jane Harman joins a panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the U.S. position on Syria in the context of reports of chemical weapons use and the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq War.
“I do agree we have reached a tipping point and that we have to play a more forceful role. $60 million of humanitarian relief is not enough. …having just been in Israel and Europe, I think we ought to consider, as part of a group, moving against the air assets in Syria and surely doing more to secure the chemical stockpiles right now,” said Jane Harman during this interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
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Jane Harman
Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center, is an internationally recognized authority on U.S. and global security issues, foreign relations and lawmaking. A native of Los Angeles and a public-school graduate, she went on to become a nine-term member of Congress, serving decades on the major security committees in the House of Representatives. Drawing upon a career that has included service as President Carter’s Secretary of the Cabinet and hundreds of diplomatic missions to foreign countries, Harman holds posts on nearly a dozen governmental and non-governmental advisory boards and commissions.
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