Craven US propaganda from Radio New Zealand

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Syrian killings seen as ''Munich moment'' by Kerry

Radio NZ,

8 September, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry believes the world is facing a "Munich moment" in the Syrian crisis - a reference to the policy of appeasement that failed to stop Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

The United States accuses President 

Bashar al-Assad's forces of killing 1429 people by poison gas in Damascus on 21 August.

"We in the United States know ... that this is not the time to be silent spectators to slaughter," Mr Kerry said in Paris on Saturday after meeting foreign minister Laurent Fabius.

"This is the time to pursue a targeted and limited but clear and effective response that holds dictators like Bashar Assad responsible for the atrocities which they commit."

"There are a number of countries, in the double digits, who are prepared to take military action," Mr Kerry said.

President Francois Hollande of France has said he expects a preliminary UN report into the incident to be submitted at the end of next week.

The BBC reports Mr Kerry is due to meet Arab League representatives in Paris before travelling to London for further talks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.

According to the UN, about 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict in the past 2½ years.