Politics this week

Barack Obama spent the week drumming up support in Congress for a punitive strike on the Assad regime in Syria. The American government contends that the regime crossed a “red line” when it used chemical weapons to kill more than 1,400 people in a Damascus suburb on August 21st. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted, by 10-7, to support a limited strike and John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, and other Republican heavyweights gave their backing. But many in Congress want America to leave Syria to its fate. See article