The spreading of recent photographs from this week’s alleged chemical attacks in Syria will prompt President Obama to take action, David Axelrod said Friday.
“There’s nothing more impactful than film, pictures, images, and those images are searing. Everyone has seen them,” David Axelrod, former senior adviser to Obama and MSNBC contributor, said on Morning Joe. “Plainly, there needs to be action. The question is, what action?”
Opposition groups in Syria accused their country’s government Wednesday of killing as many as 1,300 civilians–many women and children–in a poison-gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus. Since then, images and videos released have depicted victims with symptoms associated with exposure to chemical agents, including foaming at the mouth, convulsing, and constricted pupils.
Obama was elected partly because of his skepticism about the war in Iraq and his belief of not becoming involved with issues of unknown cost, consequences, and duration, said Axelrod, who added the president needs to consider all options before taking action.
“I expect that they will take action, whether it’s the no-fly zone…or surgical strikes, we’ll see,” Axelrod said.








