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Course of the program. thanks, ed henry. jon: for more on this lets bring in walid farris, fox news middle east terrorist analyst. the president doesnt seem to have any good options here. is there a way to fire the shot across the bow as he described it, against the syrian government, make it a limited strike and still be successful? >> look the administration case for a limited strike against the syrian regime chemical capacity is based on the fact we can not allow this to continually the long-...

If youre not going to destroy the regime, there isnt much use for a show of force. >> christopher, what do you think? >> destroy the regime like we destroyed saddam husseins regime, then get on the ground and occupy the country, spend $2.5 billion a week, kill 100,000 people? >> not realistic. >> i dont think thats a good idea and i dont think obama thinks its a good idea and i dont think the american people think its a good idea. >> what about this idea of this limited strike, this shot across ...

He will not alter the logic of the situation on the ground with some pinpricks. if youre not going to destroy the regime, there isnt much use for a show of force. >> christopher, what do you think? >> destroy the regime like we destroyed saddam husseins regime, then get on the ground and occupy the country, spend $2. 5 billion a week, kill 100,000 people? >> not realistic. >> i dont think thats a good idea and i dont think obama thinks its a good idea and i dont think the american people think i...

Bow implies if they dont heed the warnings, syrians dont heed the warnings, theres a lot more coming. the president already made clear theres not more coming. what if bashar al assad uses chemical weapons again. what will president obama do? he announced to the world he has no stomach to do more. will he do more? the red line is breached. will it matter it is breached again? it has been breached before this attack. >> i mean, i think we dont know how strong this retaliation, if any, will be. wer...

Handled intelligence before the invasion of iraq and in effect isnt he in a way saying to congress and to the country trust me? >> absolutely. there is no greater kind of disconnect between candidate obama and president obama than this. i mean, he ran to get us out of military conflicts. he ran to not do things without congressional approval. i think the congress piece will be resolved. i dont think he will get the reaction that david cameron got. i think the biggest question is the strategic qu...

Have no interest in any kind of open ended conflict in syria. but we do have to make sure that when countries break international norms on weapons like chemical weapons that could threaten us, that they are held accountable. >> if there is a limited air strike, critics argue it wouldnt be a sustained effort with lasting results. >> when you shoot across the bow of an enemy ship, youre telling it stop or we will sink you with the next round. what obama is saying, were doing a shot across the bow,...

Well hear from her at the top of next hour. dana bash, thank you very much for us in washington. in damascus today, here he is. syrian leader bashar al assad appearing on state-run television. and he is smiling, hes gesturing. he said his country will defend itself against any and all aggression. and in a pbs interview, president obama characterized any action hed take as a targeted, limited shot across the bow. just a short time ago, his spokesman, josh ernest, laid out the rationale for acti...

Anytime you strike something thats not a military target, and even when you do, there will be collateral damage, that may include civilians, any russian advisers, though there are some reports that they have already bugged out. so any strike will have a class real effect. the question is what are you trying to accomplish? if all were trying to accomplish is to make a statement to launch a punitive attack because the president drew a line in the sand and said do this, then you dont have to do ver...

The prices fall, they fall harder than they did on the way up. >> neil: we shall see. thank you. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: were getting world the u.n. chemical weapons team will wrap up its investigation tomorrow and a formal report on what they found or didnt find, that could take some weeks and maybe thats how long president obama should wait before firing across the bow because remember the cuban missile crisis? all based on proof. the proof then was pretty clear, black and white photos an...

Crossed in an appalling way and thats why he supports action in this case. >> again, iraq coming into the forefold and the u.s. has direct interest and what happens in syria and what happens there affects the price of oil, also military involvement and hitting military families already stretched thin from more than a decade of war in afghanistan and iraq and what is done in syria could hurt or help u.s. enemies and the allies in the region. want to bring in barbara starr that joins us from the p...