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Then going down to 23, i think that is why it went down to 23,000 feet, it started to stall. whether there was a fight going on, i dont know. >> general mcinerney, who would want this plane, and if it was a hijacking, do you believe it possibly landed someplace? >> i believe definitely it landed someplace. that, i do not know. i would look at all air fields, 7500 feet in length with a large ha ha hangar in pakistan and eastern tehran. i do not know why but i know they didnt go through all this a...

When we degrade assads forces somehow democracy will take hold in the country? >> no, absolutely not. you see that played out in egypt when the president embraced muslim brotherhood and president morsi there, happened, thank god egyptian military taking action against them will tucker, very simply, the only way you can ensure chemical weapons not used by anyone in syria is to go in and secure the chemical weapons stockpiles. when the president says were not going to put boots on the ground, that...

Show us. >> the most important thing right away is to take out the air fields here represented by red airplanes. there are a number of significant airfields and they are the first targets for any attack. to the extent there are planes on the ground, theyll go as well. here we have represented a couple of brigades of the fourth armored division commanded by bashar al assads brother in which we think is probably the source of the gas attacks on the civilians. the latest gas attacks which killed al...

>> what would an attack on syria look like? what military do we have in the region? major general joins us this evening. >> hi. >> ill ask you the question i asked before. leland vittert says syria is moving men, equipment, evacuation, launchers, chemical weapons stock piles. i understand, correct me if im wrong, cruise missiles, theyre not good for movable targets and underground bunkers. >> and not good at creating air fields, not good as taking out reinforced target, only 250 pounds of tnt in...

Say wow, that wasnt bad, lets continue the campaign, lets start killing our people again using conventional weapons because that seems to be okay, then what does the united states do? thats when we look bad is when we have this pin prick, if you will, against the syrians, we strike empty buildings and air fields, and then assad is still in power, maybe even stronger in the minds of the syrian people, and then what do we do? we do nothing. >> obviously i was reading the headlines in the english s...

>> jay carney there making it very clear that they have no doubt and previewing the intelligence assessment that will be declassified sometimes we believe later this week. jerry lee bash served as chief of staff to former secretary of defense and cia director leon panetta in both posts and joins us now. lets go over what the mission is. take us behind the scenes in the war room, were at the pentagon now where you served as chief of staff. they are going over the day-to-day intelligence on target...

There. and we would not do that under the circumstance. and secondly what is available to us. and more likely is to stand off in the med terrannian and surface ship submarine and used precision guyeded ammunition in syria that will be of value to him. i believe we should use this opportunity not to make a statement attack but eliminate and degrade one of his major capabilities and the first one he values is air power. this is six major air fields and take the infrastructure down and ammunition a...

Has never spoken about syria, it is not surprising everybody is against it. you make a speech, explain it, and do something serious. you bomb the air fields, you dont have to establish -- you dont have to knock out all of the aircraft equipment as we did in libya, but if you prevent the aircraft from getting into the air by bombing the air fields, you have done something serious. you flood them with heavy weapons, not just light weapons, or you do nothing. but this i think is worse than nothing....

Flashback in 1974 now, when cold war tensions ran high between the united states and the soviet union. both countries had so many nuclear arms than an attack on one would only lead to an equally devastating counterattack on the other. with this mutually assured destruction, the united states and soviet union tried to ease tensions through various agreements, beginning a period of detente during the 1970s. one of the more controversial agreements was limiting missile attacks to military around ec...

For a couple of years, i think, where this tension between the u.s. and spak stan against these drone strikes. >> thats right, candy. weve seen good periods, bad periods, and this is definitely one of the higher tension areas right now. it even caused a pakistani official to question whether the u.s. was still even launching drone strikes from one of its air fields in pakistan. a small u.s. air field in southwest pakistan has become the heated center of he said she said. a pakistani intelligence...