But it’s unclear if their wishes will be granted after President Obama addressed the nation Tuesday night, stating that while Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to hand the country’s chemical weapons over to international monitors, accepting a Russian diplomatic proposal, he could renege on that promise.

Although Obama tentatively agreed to the non-military solution, he expressed doubt over its viability during his address, again asking Congress to support a military strike, but postpone the vote until diplomatic possibilities have been exhausted.

“It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commitments,” Obama said, “but this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because Russia is one of Assad’s strongest allies. I have therefore asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path.”

Meanwhile, the Michigan State College Libertarians stand ready for further political demonstration after a protest outside of Wells Hall last Tuesday to raise student awareness of potential U.S. military involvement.

“We’re planning,” said Lucas Joncas, president of the student group, “especially if Congress authorizes the use of force on Syria, we definitely plan on protesting again.”

Joncas said he’ll be keeping a close eye on Obama’s actions and is willing to work with other student political organizations on future demonstrations, including the Young Democratic Socialists, or YDS. Members of YDS and other student activists staged a brief protest outside of Bessey Hall on Monday.

Opposition to a Syrian strike seems to stretch past strict party lines even here on campus.

Christopher Chavis, leader of the Law School Democrats and YDS’s leader, Andrew Gibson, both support diplomatic solutions in the wake of the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons. Will Staal, president of the MSU College Republicans could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

“I don’t think we have a strong moral basis to claim humanitarian intervention,” said Gibson, a political theory and constitutional democracy major. Gibson said he believes the U.S. has more geopolitical aims in mind.

Yet the president maintains that it is America’s moral obligation to stand against Syrian use of chemical weapons, reminding viewers of “those images of children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital floor,” stating that “sometimes resolutions and statements of condemnation are simply not enough.”

But MSU’s Joncas is worried any military involvement — no matter how “limited” — would open the door to further strikes, a concern echoed nationally. He lamented over a seemingly constant state of war for the last two decades.

“We know what it’s like to go into places without having complete information,” he said. “It never ends well. And all we end up doing is creating more enemies or propping up a dictator.”