France regrets that the U.S. did not carry out threatened air strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as punishment for its use of chemical weapons, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said yesterday, the France 24 website reports today (May 14, 2014).
"We regret it because we think it would have changed lots of things ... but what is done is done, and we're not going to rewrite history," Fabius told a press conference on an official visit to Washington, D.C.
He cited U.S. President Barack Obama's "red line" pledge to order a harsh response if Assad used chemicals against his own people -- with France ready to assist in the operation -- but Obama did not abide by his own pledge.
Fabius also asserted that the Assad government still has not stopped using deadly chemical weapons -- even today. "We have information showing that the Syrian regime has fired barrels of powder with chlorine inside from helicopters at least 14 times in recent weeks," Fabius said.
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