NATO to Sit “Obama’s War” Out

NATO Will Not Take Part in a Syria Strike: Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Shia Post -30 August, 2013

NATO will not take part in military intervention in Syria, the alliance’s Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told Denmark’s Politiken newspaper.

“I don’t foresee any NATO role in an international response to the regime,” Rasmussen said, adding that individual countries would decide whether to take part in any military action.

He stressed there could be “no doubt” that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad was responsible for using toxic gas against civilians near Damascus on August 21, as it “had a store of chemical weapons and the means needed to perform an attack.”

However, NATO’s Secretary-General said he didn’t think intervention was the best way to solve the crisis, adding that a political solution would be “sustainable.

“It demands an international response, so it doesn’t happen again,” Rasmussen said.

The NATO secretary general has in the past insisted on the need for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. …source