Senator Menendez Says World Can’t Ignore Syria Action

The world can’t ignore the “horror” of Syria’s chemical weapons attack, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez said at the start of a hearing on President Barack Obama’s bid for congressional authorization of military action against Syria.

“This decision will be among the most difficult any of us will be asked to make,” Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said today. Senators need to “put aside political differences and personal ideologies, forget partisanship and preoccupations, forget the polls, politics and personal consequences,” he said.