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Talking and negotiating with the very person who has been giving all of the resources to syria in the first place. i hope that some time people will pay attention to the real problem with intervention is that we have a degraded military now. no one understanding this or believes it and yet i've been saying for 4 1/2 years. in his first budget he did away with our only fifth generation fighter, future combat system, the ground base interceptor. that was just one budget. since then, he's taken on his extended budget $487 billion out of the military. so i'm not the only one who knows that that is...

>> thank you, jessica. so the 2011 budget control act cut $487 billion from the defense department's protected budget, and the question is can the u.s. afford to act? and then a sequester will cut more, and chuck hagel says the united states is ready to go if the president orders a strike in syria, but this is what he said just one month ago. >> the only way to implement an additional abrupt 10% reduction in the defense department is to make nonstrategic cuts, and disrupt operations, and erode our technological edge. >> are we ready or at risk? a former cyst assistant of defense, thank you f...

Budget request. supplemental money to cover the cost of this operation. remember, each tomahawk missile fired alone is $1.5 million apiece. if you look back at the libyan conflict, there were 211 tomahawks fired, so you do the math, and you are talking about an operation that will cost at least several hundred million dollars. here is republican senator james inhofe who is the leading republican on the senate armed services committee. >> most of them, many of them are not aware of what's happened to our military. right now, taking the projected budget of the president obama, that would take $4...

Any members of congress after this call? if there was any sort of concensus colling out from them? >> no. in fact i stayed on the call for an hour and 15 minutes. i missed the last 15 minutes. most of the responses were very similar to mind but they didn't take a position in opposition to it. i know that is not a very popular thing to do but moist of them, many of them, are not aware of what has happened to our military. right now taking the projected budget of the president obama, that would take $487 billion out of the military and that's not with sequestration. so we just don't have the ass...

Known that by simply watching american television. most military staff have been ordered to stay home in syria for the next few days expecting a strike, jon. jon: and in this age of sequester at the pentagon, what about the cost of all this? >> reporter: well, that's a real issue that no one is really talking about. each tomahawk costs up to $1.5 million apiece to fire. during the libyan conflict, some 211 tomahawks were fired from the sea. at this point it looks like any action would be limited to a naval strike, but it is still going to be billions of dollars to act. the top republican on th...