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AMMAN, Jordan
— President Barack Obama said he and King Abdullah II haven’t reached
an answer about what to do on Syria, but he promised $200 million in new
humanitarian aid Friday to help the government here manage the influx
of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Bashar al-Assad’s regime
who’ve entered the country.
Reiterating that he sees the question of Assad’s toppling as a when,
not if, he also warned about the possibility of anti-American, terrorist
forces taking power in the aftermath.
“I am very concerned about Syria becoming an enclave for extremism.
Because extremists thrive in chaos, they thrive in failed states, they
thrive in power vacuums,” Obama said during his joint press conference
with the Jordanian leader. “They don’t have much to offer when it comes
to actually building things.”
The violence in Syria has been “heartbreaking,” Obama said , adding
that the continued loss of civilian life, “should compel all of us to
say, ‘what more can we do?’”
Noting that he was waiting to see the results of a United Nations
investigation into whether Assad’s military had used chemical weapons,
Obama reiterated that if so, this would constitute the crossing of a red
line which would require a change in American involvement.
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