In an echo of the tactics they used to promote U.S. intervention in the Balkans, Iraq and Libya, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives published a letter Tuesday urging President Barack Obama to go far beyond limited military strikes against Syria in retaliation for its government's alleged use last week of chemical weapons that reportedly killed hundreds of people.
Signed by 66 former government officials and "foreign policy experts" – almost all of them strongly pro-Israel neo-conservatives – the letter, which was released by the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), called for Washington "and other willing nations [to] consider direct military strikes against the pillars of the Assad regime" as part of more ambitious strategy to support "moderate" Syrian rebels and dissuade Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Any military action should aim to ensure that the government of President Bashar al-Assad will be unable to use chemical weapons and should deter or destroy its "airpower and other conventional military means of committing atrocities against civilian non-combatants," according to the letter.
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