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Back at their hotels after spending another day interviewing survivors and collecting samples. Theyll be coming home on saturday raising speculation that a strike might be on hold until after theyre safely out of damascus. When it comes to whos with us, our major ally with us in this, british Prime Minister david cameron, whos facing his own resistance, but others say they wont join in the strike without u. N. Support. As we suspect, that wont happen since russia holds veto power on the u. N. Se...

Tomorrow mohawks. he can rally international support from the countries around syria, not including iran and russia, of course. so those are things he can do. the crucial question now, what does he want to do? does he want to simply wrap bashar assad on the knuckles and thats the end of it? does he want to change the power dynamic? does he want to weaken assad enough that the rebels get the upper hand or does he want to go whole hog and see if he cant completely destroy assads military? he has t...

Hes the editor of "time." his cover story this week called "the unhappy warrior." bobby, thanks for joining us. i guess ill pick it up where we left it off at the end of the last statement with mark ginsburg. that is the issue of the weight of the red line comment that obama made over a year ago are factoring into all of this. i always got the impression when he made the red line statement last august, when you looked at subsequent statements even before this, over the next six months, it seems ...

"huffington post." the morning after is the worst. was the presidents goal to punish assad or to deter him or both? if its to punish him, well, we can fire cruz missiles, he gets his punishment, takes out several control and command centers and god knows what else. if its to deter him from using chemical weapons again, it is the imponderable that no wironen answer. how many cruz missiles does it take? how many times can we do this before the president leaves for the g-20. the key is not to just ...

Back at their hotels after spending another day interviewing survivors and collecting samples. theyll be coming home on saturday raising speculation that a strike might be on hold until after theyre safely out of damascus. when it comes to whos with us, our major ally with us in this, british prime minister david cameron, whos facing his own resistance, but others say they wont join in the strike without u.n. support. as we suspect, that wont happen since russia holds veto power on the u.n. secu...

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