AlQa'dah 1, 1434, Sep 7, 2013, SPA -- U.S. President Barack Obama appealed on Saturday to a dubious American public to back his bid to use military force in Syria while supporters scrambled to persuade lawmakers to authorize the move, Reuters reported. Fresh from a European trip in which he failed to forge a consensus among global leaders on the need for a military strike on Syria, Obama told his war-weary country that America needs to use force to deter future chemical weapons attacks there. But the president, clearly still the reluctant warrior who rose to political prominence on his opposition to the Iraq war, said he did not want another costly and protracted conflict. "This would not be another Iraq or Afghanistan," Obama declared in his weekly radio address, previewing arguments he will make in a nationally televised address on Tuesday. "I know that the American people are weary after a decade of war, even as the war in Iraq has ended, and the war in Afghanistan is winding down. That's why we're not putting our troops in the middle of somebody else's war," Obama said. Lawmakers returning to Washington after a summer break say many of their constituents have told them they do not think the United States should respond militarily to the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that Washington blames on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. -- SPA 21:06 LOCAL TIME 18:06 GMT تغريد
