Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20130829 : vimarsan

Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20130829

From the labour party have for supposed moment of the vote. While britain and france and turkey are on board with largelyl action there, countries that are siding with the u. S. Are calling for more diplomacy. That reported in the papers as well. We want to ask about the role of the International Community on potential actions in syria and what purpose they serve. If you want to give your thoughts on the international on onetys role in syria of our social media outlets, you can do so on twitter, cspanwj. You can always send us an email journal cspan. Org. Guardian from the newspaper this morning from the united kingdom. Threat of commons revolt forces allies to delay syria missile strike is the headline. Whitehall sources indicate that the u. S. , which had planned to launch the strikes by the weekend, may be prepared to revive a backup plan to delay strikes until tuesday when the president is due to set out for the g 20 summit in russia. In an effort to build support for punitive strikes, the u. S. And u. K. Will publish a joint summary of the intelligence which they say points toward the assad regimes response ability for the poison gas attack of august 21 in eastern damascus that killed over 1000 people. That is from the guardian. Picks up agton post little bit on the International Support for this effort, starting with David Cameron require theoes not backing of parliament to join what probably would be a limited military operation. Some powers opposed to previous military operations in the middle east, such as germany, appear to be lining up in favor. Jordan, a traditional ally, openly oppose military strikes. The jordanian information minister said his government a diplomatic solution to the syrian crisisand to declare that jordan will not be a launching pad for any attacks into syria. times more answers needed on syria is their editorial. The white house seemed ready to ignore the one because russia and china had repeatedly thwarted efforts to hold mr. Assad to account. Despite diplomatic frustrations, the Security Council should be the first venue for dealing with this matter, since chemical weapons use is a war crime and and under international treaties. Backing,road military without Broad International backing, a military strike by the United States, france, and britain and turkey could well give mr. Assad propaganda advantage. 3f you want to give us a call, phone lines available. Host you can also make your thoughts known on our twitter and oncspanwj, facebook as well. First call from north dakota on our independent line. Caller good morning. How are you doing this morning . No, i definitely dont think we should go into syria. We got to stop all this warmongering going on. It is destroying our country, and that the same time, we are it, leading to the nose at the gas pumps, Grocery Stores changing prices all over. I am unemployed right now and i need a meal at a and i go to the Grocery Store every day and i see all this. Most people go once a week or every two weeks. They dont see how bad they are. Eing stolen from i think we need to focus on the problems of this country. Another thing further,ore you go any talk about the International Reaction you have seen to this. Caller the International Reaction ive seen so far . I havent seen other than the same guys that were supporting iraq and afghanistan, the same bunch of cronies that all benefit through their military Industrial Complex perpetual war machine. That is all i see, just profits. Thats it. Line, goodrats morning. Caller when president reagan said bring the wall down, that is a big mistake, because the wall has never been brought down. China is still communist, they have been our enemy. They have had is at war for the past eight years and to fight another one is not good for america. Im a bluecollar person, black american man. King off of twitter speaks to the role of the International Community. Host a couple of thoughts from facebook this morning. You can make your thoughts on nwj, and if you want to post on our Facebook Page you can do so as well. Middle east countries have been fighting for centuries. We cannot solve their disputes but we can try to help them negotiate a truce. Other than that, all we could do still more people on thats certainly not the answer. Rick is from nashville, tennessee, and he is on our independent line. Caller good morning. Thanks, cspan. What i believe is we should stay out of these Foreign Affairs because the only reason we are doing is for oil, and we are not a nation that should be trying to democratize the whole world. This goes back to abrahams days in the bible, isaac, they will always be fighting. Have a great day. Adds this is all she morning, the International Role of our partners when it comes to potential action. You saw the headline from the guardian this money about the by the primevote minister in parliament, and what it means for International Reaction. Waine of the Daily Telegraph serves as the new york correspondent. Could you tell us what was supposed to happen in parliament when it came to syria and about this delay we have been reading about . Guest what was supposed to happen today was a fairly straightforward vote, in which woulderons government get from parliament and approach to the action in syria. Members of parliament recalled from their Summer Vacation have arrived back in london saying, well, hold on here, we have not seen enough intelligence, conclusions from inspectors, and we want to before we authorize anything like this. The brakeson has had supplied to his plan so far as action with barack obama. Have one votell today, voting on the principle of british report for some sort of humanitarian intervention british support for some sort of humanitarian invention. He will have to have a second vote now after the conclusions of the u. N. Inspectors are in and more intelligence is made public, in which british lawmakers will authorize are not authorized military action. What is expected from this first vote on the principle of support . What is expected from members of parliament as far as support is concerned . Guest early on it was expected that the government would fairly comfortably when. Win. Since yesterday afternoon, it has become clear that there is bigger opposition than previously anticipated, and dozens of members of parliament, from David Camerons own conservative party, have made clear that they are not happy with a kind of rush to military action. And and milligram, the leader of the opposition labor party, liband, the leader of the opposition labor party, who had been signaling that he would support the government, says that he wants to root wait for the results of the inspections. What we will see is a lot of speeches talking about concerns that the intelligence isnt strong enough, that written is rushing into another conflict in the middle east, just like in the u. S. Win, but it is going to be a lot tighter. Host could David Cameron act apart from parliament . Uldst he trigger a bigger constitutional row. It would cause dozens of memb py and opposition parties to essentially demands of essentially demand his resignation. I expect a vote of no confidence in him in parliament, which at this stage is far beyond what he can manage. He is having trouble enough marshaling his members of parliament as it is. If you tried anything like that he would be toast. Host as far as the United Nations are concerned, there are reports that theyre supposed to be out of syria by saturday morning. On this islatest that banking known, the yuan Inspector General banki u. N. Inspector general, will be meeting on sunday. It seems like the establishment has been persuaded to get these inspectors out a day early, perhaps, some people are saying, so that the path can be cleared for western intervention. Nevertheless, the inspectors have been given time to look into these attacks. When barack obama and david , it seems, eager to rush and even quicker. Reports fromre the guardian and maybe yours about intelligence in the United States and the u. K. As well. Guest they are expecting to see some declassified intention intelligence about a chemical attack by the assad regime. There have been reports that the american intelligence isnt as strong as some of been led to believe. We are going to have to wait to see how much of a clearcut picture it is. Swaine, what is important for viewers watching, especially from the International Community . What are people what should people be kept aware of . Guest i think the important thing that has come out of the last 12 hours, both in the u. S. And the u. K. , is that after iraq and afghanistan, commerce and the bridge parliament want to put the brakes on this. Nash and the British Parliament want to put the brakes on this. They want to have it congress and the British Parliament want to put a brace on this. They want to see more evidence. It shows you how in the last 10 years things have changed. Conservatives in britain and here, john boehner demanding more evidence. There was more residents to rush into a military intervention then there was. Ce to rush into a military intervention then there was. Host mr. Swaine, thanks for your time. Guest thank you. Host you heard jon swaine reference the letter john boehner sent to the president asking for clarification. He even as the United States grapples with the scale of human suffering, we are confronted with cut up letting potential scenarios. Our response host he goes on to ask a series of questions. There is another letter from members of Congress Asking for more consultation from congress about this issue. The International Community is where we are turning our attention to this morning. You heard jon swaine talk about some of the reaction in the united kingdom. We want to get your thoughts on that and the role the International Community might play in this. Host twitter and facebook available to you as well. A question off of facebook says, there is no role the International Community could thoseat would bring back who lost their life. Sending Cruise Missiles there would just cause more loss of life and just may start world war iii. Going back to the phones, robert from charleston, south carolina, republican line. Thanks for holding on. Caller good morning, sir. How are you . Host fine, go ahead. Caller im disappointed to an extent in the International Community for not really coming together. This isnt in just about two countries fighting each other. This is about a leader using very unnecessary, heinous types of attacks on civilian people, children, women. I just believe im not saying we should go to war right out the gate, but at some point we have got to put a stop to it before it happens again, or before those types of weapons get into, i guess he if you want terroristqaeda or hands, or used against any other country or us. I feel we should come together a little bit more instead of worrying about the socalled afghanistansaudi arabia and war that has been going on forever. That is one of the reasons we out of power, because of his years ago using weapons on his own people. We need to come together more, whether you are communist china, and look at the situation and come to a real honest feeling that this is not correct. Host jamaica, new york, democrats line. Caller this is edith. I dont think that we should rush to anything before we have some concrete evidence from the people who are now in syria looking into the matter. Nothing should happen before so that it sunday, can be reviewed. I am a veteran, a vietnamera veteran. I dont think we should jump into anybodys war anytime soon. The United States is stretched. We owe everything to china. China is not going to get into close anger and we have always been close to and they work with us, that is fine england we have always been close to and they work with us and that is fine. But we need more power than just american power. Ourselvesen spreading so thin and so few jobs here in america we need to look out for americans today. Host how much role should the. N. Lay inhould the u this . Caller i think they should have some say, but not total. It has got to be many, many countries saying yes, were going to do something. I dont believe in his Cruise Missile thing, because the missiles will hit innocent people. It is like we are going into killing people trying to kill people who are killing people. Its just killing more people. Barry, independent line. Caller yes, hello. You are on, sir. Go ahead. Caller i agree with the british, saying there is no rush the british commons saying there is no rush and we need more evidence. Even a murder trial in our own countries and decided in three isnt decided in three days. We shouldnt go to war because of fox news and cnn. Of our constitution and the war powers act says that only congress can declare war. We have no rush, like the last caller said. There is no emergency. We can take the time to do it properly, as the british are doing. Merits discussion, debate, evidence. Day pressust a 3 release campaign. I think it would be political suicide for the president if he rushes into another war without congress behind him. Host here is of the work a viewer off twitter this money. Host the president of the United States appearing on pbs last night in an interview, talking about what might happen concerning syria, not only what was found as far as information and evidence come up and talking about the International Consequences in the u. S. Consulting its allies on this matter. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] not yet made a decision, but the International Norm against the use of chemical weapons needs to be kept in place. , or hardlyutes anybody disputes, that chemical weapons were used on a large scale in syria against civilian populations. We have looked at all the evidence, and we do not believe the opposition possessed Nuclear Weapons chemical weapons of that sort. , givenot believe that the delivery systems, using rockets, that the opposition could have carried out these attacks. We have concluded that the syria thesernment in fact carry out, and if that is so, there need to be International Consequences. We are consulting with our allies, we are consulting with the International Community. I have no interest in any kind of openended conflict in syria, but we do have to make sure that when countries break International Norms on weapons like chemical weapons that could threaten us, they are held accountable. There is a reason why there is an International Norm against chemical weapons. There is a reason why consistently the rules of war have suggested that the use of chemical weapons violates geneva protocols. They are different, and we want to make sure that they are not loose in a way that could ultimately affect our security. Timesrom the new york this morning, more on the british reaction and its consequences. Without. Could react british support, but the Obama Administration has sought consensus and britain is americas closest ally. Another few days may make no difference to what is been advertised as a short, sharp punishment for these of chemical weapons, not an effort to oust mr. Assad. U. N. Hnical motion from the says that United Nations process must be followed to ensure action on legitimacy for any such action, and that the secretarygeneral should ensure a briefing to the United Nations Security Council immediately upon completion of the teams initial mission this is the team in syria. Mr. Camerons pullback came as britain moved to introduce a Security Council resolution that would otherwise military action in syria, a move that russia quickly signaled it would block several times. Go ahead. Caller this is the same old war, democrat wmd lies we have heard. Ever since vietnam, democrat lies. They always get us into war and then say, oh, its not our fault, we didnt know, were just stupid. Obama is a stupid. That guy is probably one of the dumbest president s in the history of america, and maybe the whole planet. He has got no intelligence whatsoever host as far as the International Reaction to this, which is kind of our focus this morning . Caller well, they are all going to go after syria, a small country. They have a person in their you dont like. Obama is not going to get rid of him. He will lob a few missiles act like bill clinton. Clintons an idiot, too. Host terrance, democrat line. Caller this is terrance. Military. Pported our i just think that as it relates to syria, if the United States andmerica is police, a is telling its own own, the United States and serves as a protective interest for the syrian people. Theyre basically being killed by chemical weapons. Should we have a serious problem with that if that is proven . I think there should be some collaborative efforts in the middle east together, all the intelligence. I t

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