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Described in a way that politically suits the president to gain support. >> christopher, putting aside the abc news reporting, you look at the draft resolution in the senate and see language that has mission creep or seems larger. >> look, you could conduct the entire kosovo air war within the terms of that senate resolution. first of all, look at the time thats allotted. were not talking two, three days or a week. were talking 60 days plus 30 more days. 90 days. if you have a sustained bombing ...

Panama. they start out little and become big. >> ill tell you what i would like to see, and i would be looking for. i would like to see the arabs do the right thing. i would like to see them celebrate, if you will, what american power is doing to this brutal man. i dont want to see the arabs doing the usual thing, hide, duck, and say, oh, this is an american invasion of an arab country. they need to disown bashar because thats beginning of redemption for them. >> fran, what will you watch for? >...

Air explosives or thermobaric capabilities. which are bombs. they dont come off of cruise missiles. they come off of fixed wings. to go after chemical weapon inventories. that would minimize the downwind hazard in terms of how those explosives are utilized. its a bit pedantic. it can be done. >> these cruise missiles as you pointed out last hour are incredibly precise. general marks, thank you very much. coming up in our special cnn coverage here of the crisis in syria continues, will presiden...

>> right. david kay, thank you very much. dr. k., always good to hear from you. general marks, great to hear from you, as well. thank you for your insight. at the top of the hour, senior citizens "around the world" will -- senior citizcnns "arou" will have more on syria and possibility of an attack. we have all the angles covered here on cnn. and still to come on "legal view," one state cracking down on revenge porn. thats when your ex posts inappropriate pictures of you on the worldwide web wit...

Towards what strategic goal. sources have been hinting at a limited campaign. pentagon officials saying that the aim would be to deter the assad regime from using chemical weapons again. not targeting the stockpiles or regime itself. general marks, let me start with you. no u.s. troops on the ground. likely no attempted regime change. was the message out of the white house today -- thats what we heard from the white house today. the leading options appear to be an option involving cruise missile...

Pentagon officials telling cnn that the aim would be to deter the assad regime from using chemical weapons again. not targeting the chemical stockpiles or regime itself. retired general james "spider" marks is a cnn analyst. general marks, let me start with you. no u.s. troops on the ground. likely no attempted regime change. was the message out of the white house today -- thats what we heard from the white house today. the leading options appear to be an option involving cruise missiles. what d...

Of attack subs, as well. the navy does not traditionally disclose locations. the question is whether and how to use assets. what kind of action to take and towards what strategic goal. sources have been hinting at a limited campaign. pentagon officials saying that the aim would be to deter the assad regime from using chemical weapons again. not targeting the stockpiles or regime itself. general marks, let me start with you. no u.s. troops on the ground. likely no attempted regime change. was the...

President is set to get the document that -- how long after that do you think a decision will be made? >> i would hope a decision has already been made and all that is necessary is confirmation, at least alerting the american public this is an inevitability. it literally could be a new york minute. there should be no effort on the part of assad -- weve demonstrated, or at least assad has demonstrated an inability to be reasonable in terms of what he is doing, so our expectations should be that h...

>> im glad you said that. because one of the arguments has been good order and discipline needs to stay the way it is, clearly, we have problems if we have numbers like that. general marks, always so god to see you. thank you so much. i want to bring in attorney lisa bloom right now to join us in the legal briefs discussion. she has a lot of experience dealing with civilian sexual assault victims. lisa, suddenly, we have this issue coming to the forefront. we have a lot of predators in the mil...

Korean goal and theyre making progress on it. and one of the real questions is how are they doing it. who is helping them. you know, a lot of rumors go through the intelligence community all the time that the iranians are helping them. this is highly technical work, very doubtful theyre doing it all by themselves. theyre getting help from somewhere and they are making progress, and i think thats really the key. people can differ over when it might happen, when they could really hit a target with...