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Not blessed them. they said, hey, you need to do a better job selling this. the leadership had been silent. there s no international cavalry either. it makes perfect political sense now to say, congress, you asked for this vote. step up, do the right thing. here is the hot potato of it s interesting. to give you a sense of how funky the coalition on this could end up being, here is ted cruz who has never had anything good to say about president obama, this was him yesterday reacting to the announcement. i am very glad that president obama has listened to the bipartisan calls for him to go to congress and seek congressional authorization before any possible use of force in syria. that was the right thing to do. obviously he s calling for, hey, we want this hot potato. a lot of members have been. ....
The situation in syria. still with us richard wolffe executive editor of msnbc.com. heather, executive director of the national security network, former state department speechwriter under president bill clinton, josh rogin, senior correspondent for national security for daily beast, former diplomat and official under george w. bush now at american university. so heather, start with you, i send it up there before the segment. everybody has iraq on their minds in some way. the experience and example of iraq. i know we can say there s a lot of distinctions between what is proposed, what s on the table here. is the vote that congress took on iraq after the 9/11 attack was the culmination of almost a decade of efforts to push us into war with iraq exactly, by the way, ....
Join in the attack was undercut by elected representatives of the people. it is clear to me that the british parliament reflecting the views of the parish people does not want to see british military action. i get that and the government will act accordingly. there s that magical video. anyway, so what we do know is no matter what happens, britain is not going to be a part of it. there is one overriding reason for that. we ve got to learn the lessons of iraq because people remember the mistakes that were made in iran. iraq, that is the four letter word that thwarted david cameron, the four-letter word that hovers over the president s determination to take action in syria. there s a certain weariness in afghanistan, certain suspicion of any miller action ....
Color what you see the administration doing in putting a potentially on the line trying to respond to the horror in syria. susan samantha power susan power, an exercise guru. they are a lot more hawkish when it comes to intervention. that s why it s interesting to see. united states now, anyone think otherwise, is not going to do anything much even if she were there. she goes way back to obama, his days as a senator, was influential then. this is a topic one of the centerpieces of what she s about. i think this is clearly with this creation of this council that hasn t got a lot of attention yet. samantha power was on that council until she still may be when she became u.n. ambassador she had to tep down. this is a topic that is very specifically on the obama agenda. so now you have atrocity. he feels the need more, so i ....
Civil war. this is all about chemical weapons. and the question really before the house, i think, will be what, if any, response does the civilized world make if it s determined there was, in fact, a use of chemical weapons. for 90 years there s been a general world consensus this was unacceptable. the question is are we going to let it go? is there going to be some kind of response. beyond that is the question about to what extent do we get entangled in syria. i can tell you the people of maine and i spent all day on the road yesterday, absolutely have no appetite for getting involved in another war in the middle east. the narrower question is what s the response to the use of chemical weapons. you were in the region recently. i think when you came back from the trip you talked about being open to make kind of millimetered military strikes, arming some of the rebel groups. i guess i look at that and the question and you started to get ....