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0 thank you very much. thank you for the members of the audience. appreciate all the great questions. lets turn it over to anderson cooper right now. his show starts right now. see you tomorrow morning. good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news. abc news is reporting that president obamas national security team is preparing for a military attack in syria much bigger than most anticipated. the most surprising part of the report, that a strike could include an aerial bombardment fired ...

0 thats all for us tonight. one programming note, jake tapper will be back here 11:00 p.m. eastern an hour from now with special live report, "crisis in syria, the debate begins." anderson cooper "360" starts right now. good evening everyone. welcome to a special edition of "ac 360." im anderson cooper, for this hour, well dig deeper into the issues before congress. the question lawmakers and the american people are asking right now, should the united states launch a military strike against sy...

President. its his call. its his call. >> christopher, youre skeptical of this whole idea that the credibility is on the line, and this is something the president has to do to maintain credibility. >> im skeptical of the idea that this kind of attack is going to restore or protect his credibility. in fact, it can destroy it. if they carry out the kind of thing they are talking about, this limited, tailored attack, and assad stays in power and the war goes on, how does that ensure that he keeps h...

Hell do his best to make sure that the international community will see the damage that were causing. to it will become a humanitarian issue and the issue of the chemical strikes will essentially disappear. >> christopher, you see a concern about a widening of this? >> i think what almost always has happened in the past, whether we were going after norwiega or saddam or gadhafi in the 80s, you start out with these isolated actions, these limited actions. then theres a response. you say theres a ...

Hes probably not going to have international cooperation or congressional authorization. so this president is much going it alone, but its his red line, hes going to enforce it. >> joining us now, fouad ajami, senior fellow at hoover institution, fran townsend who sits on the homeland security and cia ex-teshal advisory boards. christopher dicky, and gloria borger. fran, while the intelligence assessment doesnt provide anything like a smoking gun, we heard from kerry, theyre staying hour high co...

Authorization vote. they would embarrass the president. i got an e-mail from senator bob corker who had a classified briefing earlier today. he said he now, seeing what he saw with regard to intelligence, feels that he would support surgical military strikes against syria. >> thanks for reporting. joining me now is fouad ajami, fran townsend, christopher dicky, and john king. fouad, the president said the national security is at stake, when you have a country with a stockpile of chemical weapons...

Ill give you one precedent which barack obama would opt for, and in a way it would see us to a proper conclusion, a good conclusion. look at kosovo in 1999. it was waged by a dove. bill clinton has never been viewed as a warrior. bill clinton and tony blair went at milosevic and we bombed serbia for 78 days. we destroyed the serbian war machine. we saved kosovo without american losses. there are many other models. everybody jumps at iraq as the only template. its the only template, iraq looms la...

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...

Which barack obama would opt for, and in a way it would see us to a proper conclusion, a good conclusion. look at kosovo in 1999. it was waged by a dove. bill clinton has never been viewed as a warrior. bill clinton and tony blair went at milosevic and we bombed serbia for 78 days. we destroyed the serbian war machine. there are many other models. everybody jumps at iraq as the only template. its the only template, iraq looms large because it looms large in barack obamas mind. >> christopher, yo...