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To a certain extent, president obama created this situation by being hesitant, and with their indifference, and when you draw a line in the sand you have to defend your word, your credibility, and the president has not done that. >> president obama talked about the red line being crossed and regime change and getting rid of assad and this week john kerry saying an unbelievably small strike. what message does that send from the american military, never mind anything else? >> the problem is, thing...

But the bulk of fighting is being done by other al qaeda affiliated. things changed dramatically. although i supported the p when he called to go to congress, which i thought was a good move, i actually think that armed intervention would be dangerous because i dont think we want to pick sides. imagine a government over throwing assad having al qaeda in it on the boarder of israel -- >> if you dont take any action -- let me ask you this, tom ridge. if you dont take any action having said my red ...

Affiliated. things changed dramatically. although i supported the president when he called to go to congress, which i thought was a good move, i actually think that armed intervention would be dangerous because i dont think we want to pick sides. imagine a government over throwing assad having al qaeda in it on the boarder of israel -- >> if you dont take any action -- let me ask you this, tom ridge. if you dont take any action having said my red line is the use of chemical weapons. if you as th...

>> right. >> republicans on the right or liberals on the left. >> thats stunning. >> and obamas not making a case about our long-term strategy in the middle east. >> what were learning in syria is the enemy of the enemy is still our enemy. we saw secular leaders saying they would quit if they dont get to work with al qaeda affiliated terrorists. a lot of the american public has no interest in that. >> dana, real quickly here, the president and secretary of state have both said they have this har...

When you degrade assad, you are benefiting the opposition groups. i think that the bulk of that energy right now is with sunni supremacists and al qaeda affiliated terrorists. it is difficult to kind of figure out where everybody is on this. there was a quote that you had given when we were evaluating libyan opposition. you said we didnt know who people were in eastern europe either. we dont always know who they all are. i think that you have to kind of have a sense of the course of history and ...

Who you met with, says not a good guy. tied with muslim brotherhood. a lot of people are going, where are the good guys in this? >> well, i know of no ties that general idriss has to the muslim brotherhood. i know there is some islamic influence maybe. these people are islamists. but to call them al-qaeda affiliated, they are not. look, i met these people. i went into syria. i know general idriss. hes not a radical, nor are the people that work for him. yes, there are jihaddists falling in from ...

Im candy crowley in washington with a check of the headlines. al qaeda affiliated groups are gaining strength in syria. thats the assessment from the deputy director of the u.s. defense intelligence agency. he says islamic militants that have pledged allegiance to al qaeda have been the most successful against syrian government forces. the obama administration has said it will increase military aid to some groups of syrian rebels. israel says its ready to resume peace talks with the palestinia...

It came to the iraq war. if they are, and there are some conflicting claims about how this might have happened. what might have happened. so i think obama wants it to go through the u.n. and go there you good the u.n. means russia will have a big say on it. if there is any final decree or action, russia will have a veto in the security council. it comes back to russia. the last thing i would say, a big potential game changer could be if you saw al qaeda affiliated rebels get ahold of those chemi...

Young man, probably the same age as suspect number two, was at the school for a while, but dropped out and he said that they would frequently speak russian in front of him, and never really bothered him and this neighborhood young man said he never heard -- never heard anything from the cousin of andys that would indicate if he was in any way angry at america or anything like that. but he doesnt know why he dropped out of high school so quickly. and right now, there is media all around, media he...

Case. because in that case, a lot of the bombs were placed on the transit system, and the al qaeda affiliated terrorists there, they didnt kill themselves until the police went to their apartment and then they blew themselves up when the police came. so i think in the madrid case, the bombing campaign would have went on and on and on. it doesnt mean that theyre not willing to kill themselves and self-sacrifice in their mission for bin laden or his ilk. but if they can continue their bombing camp...