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Is that objective? and up to what limit do we get to before putting troops on the ground? >> it's difficult, you're right, it's a difficult line to draw and as much as we like to think that cruise missile strikes are very precise, nothing in war fare is all that precise and we have to expect that we will hit the military targets. there may be civilian casualties as well. and you can never rule out the potential loss of american life even if we don't fly over syrian air space. these kind of exercise are dangerous for all involved. i think that we can draw the line in the right place. we can mak...

All of them have tomahawk cruise missiles that could be used here. and strategically, if we're talking strategy to take out assad's air capability. and one of his ways to distribute chemical weapons. he does fire these rockets as we saw. but the most effective way according to experts is to use it by air power. >> right. by air power. i think that that could be one of the strategic goals, to prevent him from doing this again. but i think charles is right. the goal has to be to prevent assad from winning. i don't know if the goal has to be to help the rebels win. that's something else entirely....

None of them agree on what comes afterwards. internen interinterventions means going in and picking sides. picking one or two or some of them. throwing guns and money at them and at the expense of the other groups. we've been down this road before, right? this is the story of iraq. this is the story of afghanistan. >> you say back during the soviet period? >> 2001. we picked sides. we threw money and guns at people and we're dealing with the consequences. so i want to tease this out to have you be clearer. no one is talking about american troops, right in even people who say we should be doing...

And obviously, we know that bashar assad will do whatever it is necessary in order to stay in power; massacres of his own people, all of the actions that he's taken that are so horrific. so i or worry -- i worry that the president and the administration will use these caveats as an excuse not to act right away or act at all, because the president clearly stated that it was a red line and that it couldn't be crossed without the united states taking vigorous action. that action should be a safe zone for the syrian opposition to operate in syria, weapons to the right people in syria and neutraliz...

it's the conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. i've got you there live right now. this is the vamp up, folks, to the big delegate leader, mitt romney. if you want to be the republican nominee for president, you'd better have your game face on when you come to cpac. and you better have cpac on your side, some say. there is a caveat to that. i'll get to that in a moment. any second now, as i said, we're expecting mitt romney, who's going to make his case from that podium to this audience. a critical audience. core conservatives in that audience. and the message h...