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Nbcs mark murray. who pens "first read" that i always read. thank you. as the white house weighs its next move, officials are aware of the fact the international stakes are quite high, whether theres an attack or not. bobby goesh is the international editor for "time" magazine and our next guest is on the council for foreign relations. i want to start with you and quote from something you wrote entitled the best case scenario in syria. you said, the united states should use the leverage it has i...

Try to thread. >> p.j., what is the military coalition that is needed? we talk about the diplomatic coalition. >> well, the context of libya two years ago made sure there was arab skin in the game. im sure whether its from turkey or someone else in the region, there will have to be some sort of arab league participation in the mission. if its just the united states lobbying in a large number of cruise missiles, i dont think its going to have the political effect in the region. i agree with bobby...

Joining us. lets bring in our panel now. good to see all of you. bobby, ill start with you. with the arab league statements here, is that enough? were hearing now the united states has british, french, and turkish support. >> it certainly helps a great deal. as i said in the earlier segment, this is not a ministry level statement. however, the arab league kicked syria out. the arab league has been calling for different kinds of action in syria. syria has no friends in the arab league. as we saw ...

Men and women. so i think hes really got to make a closing argument, the president does, to the american people as to what the vital u.s. interest is thats at stake here. >> michael smerconish, thank you so much. p.j. crowley as well and bobby goesh. i appreciate your time and perspective on this topic. coming up, crews gaining ground trying to contain that raging wildfire that keeps growing in california and is threatening the water and power supply. plus, strong reaction to a controversial...

Military strike. and if by definition its not intended to topple assad, then is it really worth it? richard, as you can probably tell, ive got a lot of questions about this. i agree with bobby. hes got to sell it to the american people. i think at a minimum, the congress ought to come back in session and debate this issue. >> lets take michaels lead on that, p.j. as we look at a limited engagement, as hes questioning, is there a way to prevent getting boots on the ground? when does that action h...

Proposed by the obama team, marine and army ground combat power how do you pay for it? what arent you going to do in some other part of the budget? listen for that. is there a concrete proposal on resources to fund any national security strategy? >> susan, have you heard anything concrete about that yet? >> i think thats what the speech is supposed to be about and important and heard what karen said and the others. he does have to offer some specifics. thats been one thing whether on the economi...

Hell talk about not getting ahead of dangers and potential threats. theres issues in these countries. theres concerns about food security, water security and the development and the growing rule of law. it needs to be addressed. its through the collective international action where we see the most gains. what this administration has done effectively is galvanize international work. while the results are not complete and they shouldnt be expected to be complete so quickly, the process is under wa...

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Once he paid the families of the victims from the pan am. it was an full scale weapons program but the parts of the weapons pro program. then condoleezza rice went in 2008, she was the first to go in many, many decades and hillary clinton went back it tripoli two days ago, again the first secretary of state since then. the highest ranking official since the civil war. what happened between 2008 when we were normalizing relation answers even 2009, barack obama was shaking hands at the u.n. with m...

That road in iraq. >> regime change there took eight years, thousands of americans and iraqi lives and nearly a trillion dollars. that is not something we can afford to repeat in libya. >> bobby goesh, do we see in libya lessons learned from iraq. >> yes. i think the biggest lesson learned is you have to let people do it by themselves. take a back seat, give them rushl help as nato bombing operation provided, but let the people do it themselves. whether or not the people in iraq were in a positi...