Levin Says US Should Consider Limited Military Strikes on Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin

Jul 10, 2013

Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) holds an iPhone as he speaks to Apple CEO Tim Cook during a hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013. Apple Inc's chief executive officer defended the company's tax record at a Tuesday Senate hearing where lawmakers said the maker of iPads, iPods and Mac computers kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to avoid U.S. taxes. — Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) speaks during a hearing on offshore profit shifting and the US tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013. — REUTERS/Jason Reed

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks with reporters after reading a statement on chemical weapon use in Syria during a news conference in Abu Dhabi April 25, 2013. Hagel on Thursday said the U.S. intelligence community believes the Syrian government has used sarin gas on a small scale against rebels trying to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXYZQ8

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Edward Royce, chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs speaks during a press conference in Taipei on January 28, 2013. Taiwan pushed for a US sale of submarines, saying the island's submarine fleet is too old to defend itself, as a US congressional group, led by Royce visited to evaluate the island's defence needs. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG (Photo credit should read Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)

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Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) (C) is trailed by reporters outside of a closed-door Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Bergdahl prisoner swap at the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 10, 2014. The White House has been trying to appease angry lawmakers since U.S. President Barack Obama announced on May 31 that U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been exchanged for the five inmates from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY)

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An Israeli Air Force F-15I jet is seen in the background as Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (3rd R) speaks to reporters while standing next to Israel's armed forces chief Major-General Benny Gantz (R) and commander of Israel's Air Force Major-General Amir Eshel (4th R) during a presentation at Hatzerim air base in southern Israel April 30, 2013. Israel on Tuesday launched its first targeted attack on a militant in Gaza since a war in November, killing a Palestinian jihadist in an air strike that put f

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