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That if were going to make a military action, if were going to do something more than what obama was accused of doing back in 2013, pin pricks, that we should come up with a coherent strategy to wrap around that. >> right. >> president oma did lose his nerve. what triggered him to lose his nerve was that the british parliament if you remember voted down. and suddenly he said, oh, my gosh, i might be out here alone. so he did go to congress. i do find it interesting that many people now who are i...

Battlefield enough that diplomatic measures can then try to move assad out? i dont know what he wants, and he probably doesnt know what he wants. you cant just order up whatever from the pentagon. theyre going to ask, what do you want to do? and i dont think we have a good answer to that right now. >> shadi, you have been really outspoken in your critiques of american policy in syria, which i think you view as a sort of both moral and strategic failure thus far. how do you understand what appear...

Nondecision. and with the president of their own party, i think they would be much more likely to follow on and to follow him. and many democrats have been speaking out about this as well. . demanding a mor forforceful, mo robust foreign policy. let me go back to something that sam said that i think is very troublesome. i didnt vote for this president, but he is the commander in chief, and were going to have to live with him and we cant not take action because we now dont trust him. its why i di...

Over the course of his reality tv career, he has fostered these cultures where there is competition and sort of competing ficompet competing fooif domes that are jockeying to get his attention. we saw that with the health care and a range of issues. >> to kens point about he has republican establishment folks around him. this to me seems like a classic example of the fact that in the end, the foreign policy establishment of the republican party is the foreign policy establishment of the republic...

Have to do something, and so i think a punitive air strike, a limited punitive air strike that seeks targets very carefully, targets linked of course to what the syrians did -- so either units or actual aircraft that were responsible makes a lot of sense. look, as ayman just said, there have been nine chemical attacks just in the first three months of this year alone by the regime. but most of them were deemed to be chlorine attacks. so this sarin gas -- it looks like sarin gas, and its pretty b...

Were okay with assad, and we dont have a problem with that. so im happyt tru is willing to be flee and shift his position. >> right. >> because hes been moved by something. i dont know why were criticizing him for that. >>. >> but the specific question it seems to me, as someone of my age cohort, you know, iraq looms over all of this always with u.s. military intervention in the middle east. it will be this president with the people around him who will be stewarding whatever happens tonight, and...

Better or worse, he hasnt made a lot of appointments in the deputy undersecretary, assistant secretary level so there are state department, defense department professionals who are filling out those roles. >> sam, i want to give you a second to respond then were going to move on. >> the point is not that the president doesnt have authority to do it because i didnt vote for him. the point is when we say were supporting something thats reliant on a very complicated strategy that sees beyond this f...

Power, particularly this one. what is it were trying to do? once we decide what it is were trying to do, then we can decide whether were going to act or not act. but if what youre trying to do is change the regime, youre going to have to send lots of people, probably a multi-national force. were going to have lots of people occupying the place. were going to have to do it in coordination with the russians and iran too. can you see this happening? and then have a large number of people there for,...

I think he would win a lot of points and build confidence with people, even holdovers from the obama administration were deeply frustrated with the fact that we drew a red line and did nothing about bashar al assads chemical weapons. even trying to work out some kind of response would be more than the previous administration did and potentially give him the opportunity to say, look, im trying. there is no perfect answer to any of these problems. its not sitting in a box on a shelf some place. he...

The north korean nuclear issue is something he inherited from obama. the syrian issue, what did he do yesterday? he criticized the obama administration for its weak stance. these are in his court now. hes the chief foreign policy official. this is up to him. though his poll numbers are low, that doesnt change the necessity for him to respond forcefully. >> you cant overstate the importance of these numbers to the president himself. his stump speech for many, many months consisted him solely pull...