situations, you need a military plan, you need a goal, and you need an exit strategy, and it doesn t appear that we have any of those lined up. everybody is engaging in some feel good politics. yes, we have the strike. if it s successful the american people will probably be applauding the president for it, but ultimately if this starts a long-term engagement in syria, the american people aren t going to like it. they don t like the fact that we still have troops in afghanistan, troops in iraq. it s unbelievable and it s it s something that the war weary american public don t like. that brian s point there, congressman, what do you think of that, particularly in terms of what your constituents want to see and what you re going to say to them when you go home for recess? you re probably home now, i would imagine, about what your task as their representative is in guiding this policy going forward? look, my constituents were obviously horrified by the attack that occurred by the a
small conservative idea, he always came out on the side, yes, it will make things worse. that is a problem. as you said, we do not have a plan b right now. there is no plan for regime change. the vacuum attracted the worst most awful terrorist groups in there. we don t have the moderate opposition anymore. there are not a lot of good choices. you don t seem to have a plan a. what we are looking at, when you look at military situations you need a goal and you need an exit strategy. it doesn t appear we have any of those lined up. everybody is engaging. we had a strike and if successful the american people will probably be aplaplauding t president for it. the american people aren t going
doing and find other ways around it and other ways to haunt you. how do you think this plays out, sergeant, it s a gut call, i know, but what do you think? i think we have to realize the enemy that we are dealing with. we are dealing with an infestation, they re like cockroaches and i believe that you kill one, you kill two, you kill three, more are going to step up and take their spot. there just has to be some type of exit strategy in order to defeat this and if we are going to do this, we have to go all out and we cannot have our hands tide behind our back as we have in the past few years. if we are going to do this, politically or militarily, we just have to have a really solid exit strategy. neil: now we have said that this was a one-and-done deal. we heard nikki haley at the united nations say if you use chemical weapons, i m paraphrasing, we are going to do
that, the dcpc process actually doesn t get you to the best decisions. i suspect that president obama thought that as well. he approached it from a very small conservative idea which is will me doing something make this situation worse? and in the case of syria, which is incredibly complex, he always came out on the side, yes, it s going to make things worse and, indeed, it might. that is the problem. and as you say, we do not have a plan b right now. there is no plan for regime change. the vacuum has attracted the worst most awful terrorist groups in there. we don t have the moderate opposition anymore. there are not a lot of good choices. don t seem to have a plan a. right. i mean, you look at what s what we re looking at, i mean, when you look at these military situations, you need a military plan, you ne a goal, and you need an exit strategy, and it doesn t appearhate have any of those lined up. everybody is engaging in some feel good politics. yes, we have the strike. if i
red line. that didn t succeed back in 2013, i believe it was. that s right. when the resolution came forward. there is an understandable fatigue, both in congress and amongst the american people, about getting into wars where we don t have an exit strategy. regime change where we don t have an answer, particularly in confusing places like syria. but what does it look like? what does a road forward look like, that the united states commits some military might to dealing with a massive humanitarian crisis in the middle east? ali, it is a mess. syria and iraq have been profoundly reshaped by isis and by the long going, grinding civil war within syria, which is really a war of assad against his own people. we have made real progress with our coalition partners in pushing isis out of mosul. we are poised for success in taking raqqah back from isis. i m gravely concerned we don t have the investment in diplomacy