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New U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday he believed U.S. policy of giving only "non-lethal support" to Syria's opposition was the correct one.
Hagel's comments, at his first news briefing since taking over the Pentagon on Wednesday, came a day after the United States said it would for the first time give non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels and more than double its aid to Syria's civilian opposition.
The moves disappointed opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who are clamoring for Western weapons, something U.S. President Barack Obama has so far refused to provide.
Hagel's predecessor, Leon Panetta, disclosed earlier this month that he joined the heads of the State Department and CIA last year in recommending arming the rebels.
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dkf
(37,305 posts)Too many black boxes of cash going who knows where for who knows what.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)We should have stayed out of Libya too.
