State Dep’t: Military Option Still on the Table for Syria

State Department: Military Option Still on the Table With Syria (Washington Free Beacon)

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. had never taken the military option off the table with regards to Syria’s chemical weapons removal Thursday, leading Associated Press reporter Matt Lee to ask why the administration didn’t expect the historically deceitful Syrians to fail to meet their commitments.

“We’ve never taken the option, as it relates to Syria, off the table,” Psaki said.

The U.S. slammed Syria Thursday for failing to meet its pledge to surrender its chemical weapons for destruction, calling it an “open-ended delaying” of the disarmament process as a means of renegotiating the deal they cut last fall. “It hasn’t done anything” when the U.S. has just called out Syria for its various atrocities and abuses, Lee pointed out, but Psaki defended that tactic.