Photo: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, center, briefs reporters on board his plane Thursday en route to Singapore. Credit: Jim Watson / Pool Photo
No Military Action In Syria Without U.N., Leon Panetta Says -- L.A. Times
ABOARD AN AIR FORCE JET -- Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said that the U.S. should not take military action in Syria without authorization by the United Nations, a position seemingly at odds with that of another senior U.S. official who said the diplomatic channel has reached an impasse.
Panetta’s comments, made Thursday aboard a U.S. Air Force aircraft on his way to Asia, came a day after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said military action without U.N. backing in response to continuing bloodshed in Syria was becoming the “most probable scenario.”
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