Susan Rice On Syria: Sending Foreign Troops Is 'Premature

As the deadly crackdown by Bashar Assad's regime in Syria stretches into its 15th month and the death toll soars to more than 12,000 people, the United States maintains that international military action against the country is not the best course of action.

"The consideration of putting U.S. or other foreign troops on the ground is premature, to say the least," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told a group of journalists at an event hosted Tuesday by Bloomberg View.


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