now. we can't have a third misstep into another conflict. no americans want that. >> mark, really quickly, i have to ask you, as joe points out, there are democrats and republicans both for and against some kind of intervention here. it's split across the spectrum. this president is not known for spending a lot of time wooing the folks on the hill. does he have to do it this time? >> first, before you can woo somebody, you have to have a strategy. it's not clear that the president has a strategy. the problem is he sat on his hands for two years while 100,000 people were slaughtered. what's happened now, al qaeda has come to dominate the opposition, the moderate secular forces have been marginalized. if assad falls you could have an al qaeda backed government come in and take over nuclear weapons. those are their objectives. we need a strategy not to save face, a strategy to marginalize al qaeda, strengthen the secular pro-western element of rebels and make sure assad is replaced