A bipartisan group of senators joined together yesterday to discuss a proposed Senate resolution on Syria, which would condemn the rogue regime and urge the Obama administration to act decisively. The strongly worded resolution “expresses solidarity and support for the people of Syria as they seek to exercise universal rights and pursue peaceful democratic change.” This wording, and other such lines in the resolution, would hopefully undermine the Syrian regime, which is led by Bashar al-Assad and killing protesters on the Syrian streets. 

Additionally, the resolution “strongly condemns and deplores the human rights abuses of the Syrian government, including the use of arbitrary and lethal violence and deployment of military forces against peaceful demonstrators,” and “strongly condemns and deplores the Syrian government’s extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary and mass arrests against Syrian civilians.”