France: Syria action would ‘re-balance’ situation


September 4, 2013 at 11:27a.m.

France: Syria action would ‘re-balance’ situation

PARIS (AP) - France’s government offers a preview today of what the Obama administration faces next week, as lawmakers debate the wisdom and necessity of a military response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed hundreds. Shoring up support for a military response, French officials said a punitive military response would help shift the balance in a 2 1/2-year-old civil war that was tipping in favor of Bashar Assad.