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Pathetic argument. the doctor is a doctor, i ask him kindly to go to the refugee camps in the turkish border and the lebanese border and the jordanian border, he will listen to two million eyewitness. two million eyewitness who will tell him that crimes and the violation that the syrian regime committed against the syrian people. >> miss atassi, one of the problems that the opposition and people in support of a strike here are running into in the u.s. are videos like came out in the "new york ti...

Good? >> i dont think that a bombing necessarily accomplishes that. i think that perhaps a targeted strike on assad would. but -- >> take him out. >> yeah, taking him out. i think that would send a message. >> that makes you smile, colonel. >> well, i sort of agree. i think we missed our opportunity about 18 months ago. you know, we didnt start the civil war. the civil war was a home-grown thing and we could have capitalized on it and then come to their assistance. that was the call for action. ...

Along. they want to do something very precise, sophisticated and signal but they want to paint it in these dramatic terms. >> lets take on history for a second here, doug, because the president also brought up rwanda today, saying that essentially if we saw the genocide in rwanda today and did nothing, we would regret it. is rwanda a better historical comparison? >> i agree with fareed, with every word he just said, completely. i dont think even rwanda is an analogy of whats going on right now. ...

Its a little better than world war ii. the whole world war ii/hitler thing is very overwrought. i think the idea that chemical weapons are being used in syria, i mean, this is not a libya strike, you know, going after africa. this is in the heart of the middle east, where american interests are right by our border with turkey, our erstwhile nato ally, sharing a border with israel. its a serious foreign policy crisis but the point fareed made is you dont want to oversell this as something larger ...

This is world war ii, we should be mobilizing the whole army and sending it into syria. you see what i mean? youre trying to wind people up for some monumental dramatic cause and then what youre proposing is a limited precise strike thats really designed to send a symbolic message. this has been the problem with the administrations policy all along. they want to do something very precise, sophisticated and signal but they want to paint it in these dramatic terms. >> lets take on history for a se...

Let me first of all ask you to respond to the doctor we just heard there, who suggested theres a difference between opposition and terrorism. what do you say to that? >> first of all, i am a pro strike against assad regime. we should be clear here that this strike is not towards syria, the country. its not towards syrian citizens. its not towards civilians neighborhood. its towards the military station and camps that the regime is launching and killing his own people. i hear the doctor loud and ...

And do something to stop this. is this one of those times when there is an obligation to try to do something, anything, not make the perfect the enemy of the good? >> i dont think that a bombing necessarily accomplishes that. i think that perhaps a targeted strike on assad would. but -- >> take him out. >> yeah, taking him out. i think that would send a message. >> that makes you smile, colonel. >> well, i sort of agree. i think we missed our opportunity about 18 months ago. you know, we didnt s...

Others. and i would encourage the listeners to look into that report. >> doctor, i do thank you very much for joining us right now. again, speaking on behalf or at least in support of the assad regime. i want to bring in right now farah atassi, political activist and member of the syrian national coalition. she is an advisor to rebel general idriss and she supports the idea of strikes in syria. let me first of all ask you to respond to the doctor we just heard there, who suggested theres a diffe...

Ask for the libya strike. so youd have to see where were at right now. but the higher levels and the higher workings of government felt they were not briefed. >> people on capitol hill are saying exactly what is the mission? it hasnt been spelled out to us, whats the exit strategy and whats the end game here? president obama says he has been quite clear what he wants out of libya. lets look back and hear what he says. >> i want to take this opportunity to update the american people about the sit...