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Wants to accomplish. and just a unilateral strike, even though it might be a proportional response to a shoot-down of a drone, where does it lead? and i think some of the military commanders were forcing that issue of saying, when youre about to use force and you dont know where its going to take you, if it spins out of the control and you dont have an end state in mind, its going to escalate very quickly. the quote from the guns of august, about what occurred in the first world war, was when a ...

There are effects that are in place. and were evaluating what those look like. whatever the desired end state is. i can modify behavior even more. it is a negotiating technique if i use the military. absolutely the president owns this. hes the commander in chief. if he says start, well start. he gets input. if he says stop, well turn it off. >> admiral, i got a couple questions for you. you raise the fact the administration didnt say dont publish this. you were at a position at the state departm...

Organization, not being tied to a strategy of exactly what it is we want iran to do other than to come to the table which is confusing to them. because they were already at the table with the iran nuclear deal. its confusing. and many of us have said we are very concerned about a situation which will test the national security organization within the white house. this certainly could be it, because there are no good ongss on this one. its very easy to stumble into a war. its much hard tore get o...

So weave options. >> lets play this out for a moment. if that were to be the response that the administration chooses, how does that help achieve the end goal of stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon at all cost? would that not knowing the regime in iran, would that not simply motivate them to move more quickly with their uranium enrichment? >> well, their uranium enrichment is already accelerating, so i would say iran is going to do what it wants almost irrespective of what we do. i am no...

And i am certain about it. i mean, that is an irgc speedboat were looking at in that photograph. this is their main maritime as set, because they dont have big ships, and this is the thing theyre capable of doing, and more capable now than when i was in the gulf and it certainly fits them. so, no, i have no doubt at all. >> but to phils point about being burned by the iraq war, and were hearing that from a lot of people around the world today, and to the point that the congressman from illinois ...

Committee still means political control so the deal the states are the deal is date and theres not a business no other deal on offer so what do you do what you do is you accept that the deal is did. and you say can we do better than you do in fact we can so what you do is you go straight to the so-called future relationship. and you say which is the desired end state at the end of all of these negotiations and that is a comprehensive free trade agreement between the united kingdom and the europe...

Bottom line is we have a moral obligation. brian: we are squeezing them now? >> yes, we are. we have been at war for 20-plus years right now. the longest period of war in our nations history. we have a moral obligation as leaders in this country to make sure that the mission has an end state so that our troops come home when they come home and know they fought for a reason. steve: right. thats why the lawmakers are going to get the briefing on tuesday so everybody is on the same page. meanwhile,...

In many cases especially in afghanistan theres not a clear end state. not a clear goal. were muddling along. its fundamentally wrong to ask american troops, american marines, sailors, soldiers to put their lives on the line without a clear end state. >> so dan brought up syria. im curious what your thoughts are when it comes to syria. obviously, the goal in taking 2,500 to 4,000 troops over there was to stop the spread of russias influence, irans influence, assads influence through parts of that...

Ive afraid hes going to eat the pieces. heres the thing. i think when we get to the end of this, what were going to find is that north korea wants a better, more positive relationship with the united states, but i dont think its going to be willing to surrender its nuclear weapons. if we get to that end state, i think its still worth doing. i mean, i think we still can get to a point where were beginning to resolve the underlying differences that pushed north korea to develop nuclear weapons and...

End state, thats where it becomes problematic. we can debate whether or not we should be in northern syria or not and have a process for getting out, but to announce it spontaneously and have a whole lot of people to include the military which, he also campaigned for, very confuse pwd what would happen next is problematic in my view. >> we are going to take a quick break here. thank you very much. the president and congress back in washington today. the big question, of course, is can they get...