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over the coming days. this morning, we're heading to horse guards parade, where for the first time in two years, we'll witness the full splendour of trooping the colour — the queen's birthday parade. this evening, as dusk falls, it's the lighting of the beacons — there'll be thousands of them aflame across the four corners of the united kingdom and beyond to the commonwealth — it promises to be quite a spectacle. tomorrow morning, we'll be heading east along the river thames to st paul's cathedral, where the queen and the royal family will attend a national service of thanksgiv...

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Number of options and all of those are still on the table. final decisions haven't been made yet on that front. the president has a number of options at his disposal and all of those remain on the table. >> ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to syria, warned that the tangle of aligns is reminiscent of the situation leading to world war i. lis. >> and so right now, the level of complexity is immense. iran is reisraeli, united state hezbollah, al qaeda, free syrian army, syrian democratic forces. it minds me uncomfortably of how the stage was set in august, 1914. >> oh, dear. >> nobody wanted ...

Down to a simple matter. the president said there was a red line. assad crossed it. whatever else, besides those two facts may be, it doesn't matter. the president has to do something, maybe relatively minimal as steve says to back up his red line and it's going to happen in one way or another. john kerry is trying to lay the ground work for that, with few facts to back it up, let's face it, that's what this is about. >> charles, you wrote about the guns of august, the reference to august 1914 when europe and other parts of the world was a powder keg ready for someone to light the match. what ...