Kongres mungkin mengundi 'Tidak' menyerang Syria . . .

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MADAyuMadyan - Kongres mungkin mengundi 'Tidak' menyerang Syria. Walaupun Presiden Barack Obama cuba untuk menghidupkan sokongan luar negara untuk potensi serangan terhadap Syria, penggubal undang-undang di Amerika Syarikat Dewan Rakyat tidak kelihatan semua yang mungkin untuk membenarkan penggunaan kuasa tentera.

Obama sedang bertemu dengan pemimpin-pemimpin antarabangsa dalam Rusia pada mesyuarat tahunan G-20, di mana beliau dilaporkan melobi wakil-wakil asing untuk perhimpunan sebalik serangan yang diketuai terhadap Presiden Syria Bashar Assad. Sebagai ahli politik Amerika bersedia untuk mengundi sama ada atau tidak mereka harus membenarkan serangan itu, bagaimanapun, menyebabkan Obama cepat kehilangan sokongan dalam Kongres.

Menurut analisis yang dijalankan Fikirkan Kemajuan, penggubal undang-undang di dalam Dewan yang condong ke arah undi “tidak” berkaitan dengan meluluskan serangan terhadap Assad untuk bertindak balas terhadap penggunaan yang didakwa beliau senjata kimia di Syria awam bulan lalu di luar Damsyik.

Berbanding dengan awal minggu ini, ahli parlimen di Dewan kini lebih cenderung untuk mengundi terhadap kuasa serangan. Laman web ini dilaporkan pagi Khamis bahawa 199 wakil Amerika Syarikat dijangka untuk menutup  sebarang serangan terhadap Syria, dengan 49 ahli parlimen di Dewan melihat ke arah ya mengundi.

Congress may vote ‘No’ on Syria attack

While President Barack Obama attempts to drum up support overseas for a potential strike against Syria, lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives appear not all that likely to authorize the use of military force.

Obama is currently meeting with international leaders in Russia at the annual G-20 meeting, where he is reportedly lobbying foreign representatives to rally behind a US-led strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad. As American politicians prepare to vote on whether or not they should authorize such an attack, however, Obama’s cause is quickly losing support in Congress.

According to analysis conducted Think Progress, lawmakers in the House are leaning towards a “no” vote with regards to approving a strike against Assad to retaliate against his alleged use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilian last month outside of Damascus.

Compared to earlier in the week, lawmakers in the House are now more likely to vote against authorizing a strike. The website reported Thursday morning that 199 US representatives are expected to shut-down any strike against Syria, with 49 lawmakers in the House looking towards voting yes.

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Fikirkan Kemajuan (Think Progress) berkata penyelidikan terbaru mereka mendedahkan perubahan drastik yang berlaku secara literal semalaman. Menurut pemberita mereka, 30 penggubal undang-undang baru kini cenderung untuk mengundi terhadap serangan, manakala kumpulan dari orang-orang dijangka meluluskan tindakan ketenteraan hanya terkumpul 3 wakil baru sejak hari sebelumnya.

Angka terbaru diberikan oleh Fikirkan Kemajuan (Think Progress) telah dikemaskini pagi Khamis, hanya beberapa jam selepas penggubal undang-undang di kedua-dua House dan Senat membincangkan apa tindakan, jika ada, yang perlu diambil untuk rejim Assad teguran itu.

Pada hari Rabu, Jawatankuasa Hubungan Luar Senat mengundi 7 ke-10  dalam memihak kepada menggunakan kuasa tentera di Syria, tetapi ruang yang penuh akan mempunyai untuk menimbang dalam sebelum serangan dipersetujui. Sementara itu, Dewan tidak dijangka untuk mengundi sehingga minggu depan, dan pada kadar ini, penggubal undang-undang di dalam ruang yang dikawal Parti Republikan Kongres mungkin untuk menolak pelan yang akan menyasarkan Assad.

Pentadbiran Obama berkata sebelum ini bahawa mereka mahu untuk melancarkan , serangan berkadar terhad di Syria yang akan merendahkan keupayaan Assad menggunakan senjata kimia di masa hadapan. Dan manakala jawatankuasa Senat awal pergi memberinya akan datang pada hari Rabu, yang lain di Kongres tidak cukup pasti bagaimana untuk bergerak ke hadapan .

Senator Rand Paul (R- Kentucky ), seorang ahli parlimen libertarian-bersandar dengan pemandangan kuat pemencilan, berkata beliau menentang sebarang penggunaan kuasa di luar negara. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), satu lagi Republikan terkemuka di Washington, mengadu pada awal minggu ini bahawa pelan terbaru tindakan tidak cukup agresif.

Menurut Fikirkan Kemajuan, 149 Republikan dalam Dewan mungkin untuk menolak serangan di Syria, manakala hanya 13 dijangka akan mengundi memihak kepada menggunakan kekerasan.

“Nombor-nombor yang berbeza dengan tahun 2002, ketika Demokrat di Dewan disediakan’ sebahagian besar pembangkang’  ke Iraq resolusi perang Presiden George W. Bush - walaupun majoriti Demokrat (61% peratus) masih yang perang yang disokong,” Fikir Kemajuan (Think Progress) melaporkan.” Hanya 6 House Republikan mengundi menentang perang Iraq pada tahun 2002.”

Pada masa yang sama, sokongan tidak semua yang berleluasa sama ada di kalangan rakyat Amerika. Menurut tinjauan yang dijalankan oleh Washington Post sempena ABC News yang dikeluarkan pada Rabu, hanya 36% peratus daripada rakyat Amerika berkata, mereka akan menyokong inisiatif yang akan melibatkan pelancaran peluru berpandu terhadap kerajaan Syria.

Think Progress says their latest research reveals a drastic change that has occurred literally overnight. According to their reporters, 30 new lawmakers are now likely to vote against a strike, while the group of those expected to approve military action has only accumulated three new representatives since the previous day.

The latest figures posted by Think Progress were updated Thursday morning, only hours after lawmakers in both the House and Senate discussed what action, if any, should be taken to reprimand Assad’s regime.

On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-to-7 in favor of using military force in Syria, but the full chamber will have to weigh in before a strike is agreed upon. Meanwhile, the House isn’t expected to vote until next week, and at this rate the lawmakers in the Republican-controlled chamber of Congress are likely to reject a plan that would target Assad.

The Obama administration said previously that they want to launch a limited, proportional strike in Syria that would degrade Assad’s capability of using chemical weapons in the future. And while the Senate committee gave him the initial go-ahead on Wednesday, others in Congress aren’t quite certain how to move forward.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), a libertarian-leaning lawmaker with staunch isolationist views, said he opposes any use of force overseas. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), another leading Republican in Washington, complained earlier this week that the latest plan of action isn’t aggressive enough.

According to Think Progress, 149 Republicans in the House are likely to disapprove a strike on Syria, while only 13 are expected to vote in favor of using force.

“The numbers are a contrast to 2002, when Democrats in the House provided ‘the bulk of the opposition’ to President George W. Bush’s Iraq war resolution - though a majority of Democrats (61 percent) still backed war,” Think Progress reported. “Only six House Republicans voted against the Iraq war in 2002.”

At the same time, support isn’t all that rampant among the American public either. According to a poll conducted by the Washington Post in conjunction with ABC News that was released on Wednesday, only 36 percent of Americans say they’ll support an initiative that would involve launching missiles against the Syrian government.