September 10, 2013 9:44PM 

# Live Blog of President Obama’s Address on Syria 

By [Christopher A. Preble](https://www.cato.org/people/christopher-preble) 

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I live blogged President Obama’s address from the White House on Syria. I offered immediate reaction throughout the speech, and stayed on afterwards to answer a couple of questions. To get a sense of what I’ve said about the Syria situation thus far, see [this](https://www.cato.org/blog/political-class-regarding-syria), [this](https://www.cato.org/blog/accurately-predicting-potential-costs-war-syria) and [this](https://www.cato.org/blog/syria-attention-shifts-congress).

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