<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/obama-syria-chemical-weapons_n_3896093.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/obama-syria-chemical-weapons_n_3896093.html</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><h1 itemprop="headline" class="articleHeadline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 2.4em; line-height: 1.083em; font-weight: normal; "><nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Kerry’s Comments on Syria Are a Shift Over Strike</nyt_headline></h1></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><nyt_byline><h6 class="byline" style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/david_e_sanger/index.html"><span itemprop="name" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; ">DAVI S<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/david_e_sanger/index.html" rel="author" title="More Articles by DAVID E. SANGER" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; ">ANGER</a></span></span></h6></nyt_byline><h6 class="dateline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Published: September 9, 2013</h6></span><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><div class="articleBody" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; "><nyt_text><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">WASHINGTON — When Secretary of State John Kerry dangled for the first time on Monday actions that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria could take to avoid a military strike, it seemed an acknowledgment that Congress, America’s allies and the Russians were all looking for an off-ramp for what a week ago seemed like inevitable military action against Syria.</div></nyt_text></div><div class="articleInline runaroundLeft" style="float: left; 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