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Relations and international and allied commitments. every witness here today, at this table, secretary kerry, general dempsey, myself, as secretary kerry has noted as served in uniform, fought in war and seen its ugly realities up close. we understand a country faces few decisions as grave as using military force. were not unaware of the cost and averages of war. we also understand that america must protect its people. >> chuck hagel making his case before the house foreign affairs committee. a ...

Foreign relations committee. back with me, david lesh his book entitled "syria the fall of the house of assad" and the author of the book "the road to war, commitments honored and betrayed." you studied for years and used to work for nbc news as a diplomatic correspondent. how do you think the u.s. media is doing in the build up? >> wolf, one of the things the media tries to do is to simply survive and that means that you do whatever is necessary to stay with the story, to run with the story, ev...

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Position on chemical weapons, but i understand that the opposition may have made some commitments and compacts that have been negotiated, mr. secretary, that they are anti-chemical weapons, that they would commit to turn over chemical weapons to the international community, either if they take control of those weapons during the course of this civil war, or whether they are in the lead and oppose to assads government. can you talk about the opposition and their commitment to get rid of this stoc...

Empowered to carry out even more devastating chemical weapons attacks without a response. chemical weapons make no distinction between combatants and innocent civilians. and inflict the worst kind of indiscriminate suffering as we have recently seen. a refusal to act would undermine the credibility of americas other security commitments, including the presidents commitment to prevent iran from acquire are nuclear weapon. the word of the united states must mean something. it is vital currency in ...

Position on chemical weapons, i was unclear about their position on chemical weapons. but i understand that the opposition may have made some commitments in compacts that have been negotiated, mr. secretary, that they are anti-chemical weapons. that they would commit to turn over chemical weapons to the international community either if they take control of those weapons during the course of this civil war. or whether they are in the lead. can you talk about their commitment to get rid of the st...

Increasing pressure by the syrian opposition, could feel empowered to carry out more devastating chemical weapons attacks without a response. chemical weapons make no distinction between combatants and innocent civilians. and inflict the worst kind ever indiscriminate suffering as we have recently seen. a refusal to act would undermine the credibility of americas other security commitments, including the presidents commitment to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. the word of the unite...

Syrian opposition could feel empowered to carry out even more devastating chemical weapons attacks without a response. chemical weapons make no distinction between combatants and innocent civilians and inflict the worst kind of indiscriminate suffering as we have recently seen. a refusal to act would undermine the credibility of americas other security commitment, including the presidents commitment to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. the word of the united states must mean somethin...

Were not the indians. were the united states of america. there comes with that a kind of burden for wars. >> do you agree with that? because this is, become the long weekend -- >> ive been a foreign correspondent long enough to realize what the american people want from the rest of the world is to forget about it. and that they usually only get interested in foreign policy on the basis of pity, fear or anger, and those are very short-lived emotions. if the united states wants to been an imperial...

Reports from our colleagues in damascus that they are moving some of their most precious equipment out of key locations and spreading it to, one would assume to be, hidden places. although there are many satellites now, u.s. and others, overlooking syria, so moving large amounts of equipment and personnel would be quite difficult. but the syrians, civilians, and the people, and the military are both getting ready, as is the region. the turks are also on alert. theyve sent some extra troops to th...