We have also heard from doctors who treat victims of chemical
attacks, volunteers who dig through rubble with their bare hands to
rescue those trapped within, and we have heard
from the survivors of torture in Assad's prisons. As Syria drags on and on, vital U.S. national security interests are
at stake. Assad's brutality is both a magnet for terrorist recruitment
and a destabilizing force driving tens of millions of refugees out of
that country. We have 14 million Syrians, as I said, who are displaced
right now, many of them still in the country, and millions outside of
the country, yet we have taken no steps to apply the economic tools
that are available to us with respect to Assad and his backers. Mr.
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