Congressman Holding Statement Following House Foreign Affairs Hearing on Military Action in Syria

For Immediate Release: September 5, 2013

Contact: Lindsay Hamilton, 202-225-3032

 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman George Holding, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released a statement this morning after the Committee’s hearing on military action in Syria:

 

“After classified briefings and hearing directly from Secretaries Kerry and Hagel yesterday in the Foreign Affairs Committee, I am more skeptical than ever about President Obama’s plan to bomb Syria. For Secretary Kerry to say an attack on Syria – which when you get right down to it amounts to an act of war – is a limited strike, and then add we ‘are not fighting to win,’ doesn’t make a bit of sense.

 

What we heard today from the administration was purely and simply an exercise in minimizing and understating risks – and nothing I heard convinced me it is necessary to send one American soldier into battle.”