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Comes through from this committee meeting and the floor of the senate and the house that this congress, democrats and republicans, are resolute when it comes to discouraging and stopping the spread of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction. if the united states did not take this leadership role, i dont know who would. i take seriously the presidents promise that we will not be putting boots on the ground in syria. i have been to too many funerals, visited too many disabled vets to see ...

Decides to strike israel. and then israel retaliates and all of a sudden this coalition against assad falls apart because israel joined its side and wont pull together. i agree, which means if israel does respond in that situation, its going to be a challenge for american diplomacy to limit the israeli response to targets in lebanon against hezbollah and let us handler syria, or if theres extensive escalation in syria, it has to be done by a u.s., nato coalition. the chances of this are unlikely...

Limited, more broad level of authority to go into syria to accomplish what? regime change? thats where the people say no. its a terrible decision and its a land of bad options. but you -- >> shepard: when all you have is bad options, for people to dont understand. if every option is bad and the one youre considering costs lots of money and has lots of risk, why dont you sit here and go wow, we might let somebody else take care of this. >> the next time a thug uses chemical gas youll say why didn...

Are on the table we mean it. since syria used chemical weapons, we would be in a dire situation in terms of national security. what with need to know is what are the objectives in this limited, targeted strike. >> shepard: its to send a message and degrade. >> and to degrade and i asked secretary kerry, what does degradatn look like? they have to provide the united states congress and the american people with these answers. and they have to do it before the vote. the vote will be next week, soon...

"fox news channel" that united states senate passed authorization for the president to use force in syria. now, this is breaking news as it happened seconds ago. is it unexpected? no. democrats control the senate. the thinking has been that if there was an easier place to get it, it would be the united states senate. the resolution which went through the senate at last draft at least included a provision which would forbid under the auspices of this agreement to allow boots on the ground or much...

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