After the first Capitol Hill test of the White House’s push for military action in Syria, one theme emerged Tuesday from Congress: Keep American ground troops out of Syria. If President Obama is to secure passage of the authorization that he is so publicly advocating for, he’ll have to assuage very persistent concerns from the Capitol that they aren’t going to be voting to entangle the United States into another quagmire in the Middle East.
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