Military chiefs air US options on Syria

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the nation’s top military leader delivered a sober assessment Wednesday of Syria’s sophisticated air defenses and its extensive stockpile of chemical weapons in a strategic reality check to the demand for U.S. military action to end President Bashar Assad’s deadly crackdown on his people. President Obama’s 2008 rival - Republican Sen. John McCain - has called for the president to launch air strikes against Assad to force him from power and end the bloodshed.

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