he may try and just say, look, survival is victory. if i get through and come out of the rubble with my arm in the air, that s enough. it s possible given how volatile and messed up that whole region is he may do something which could impact allies like israel, take a country like lebanon that s so close to the edge anyway and push it further toward disaster. a lot could potentially come in the blowback from this, which may actually be significantly more of an impact that the america strikes in the first place. footnote for this, i think we should not really in a way overestimate the options open to bashar. israel has hit syria time and time again, and bashar did nothing. he looked the other way. bob, you said the syrian regime may be set to launch a new offensive. explain that. don, let me put it in context. i m hearing this from inside the regime from damascus. people come out, they can skype me from lebanon. these are alowites.
hezbollah or iran. cnn s international anchor jim clancy has more now from jerusalem. reporter: diminished support for military action in syria raised new concerns and some new options in israel. former military intelligence chief proposed a possible move by russia that could spare its ally, syria, a punishing strike. putin reporter: russian president vladimir putin is the only man that can stop the attack. not by sending russian warships or a russian force, said yadlin, but by dealing with what makes president obama concerned with chemical weapons. putin can come up with a proposal, he said. i will take out the syrian chemical weapons from sere wra. assad will not be able to use chemical weapons anymore. despite merits. there would be daunting obstacles on the ground in logistics and verification as well. polls show most israelis favor a military strike to show
congress supports his position, but questions still remain about that. what is the timeline? what does the military plan look like? and for many, why get involved at all? cnn s tom foreman broke down some reasons why the u.s. government may feel only fwbligo get involved in ssyria. i want to bring back in security analyst bob baer, in telluride, colorado. i want to talk about these points. tom s first point is stability for the region, especially for israel. how important is that for the u.s.? it s extremely important. look, if the regime it falling apart, at least psychologically falling apart, and they did use chemical weapons against civilians in large numbers, they re perfectly capable of firing a 122 millimeter artillery round into israel. the israelis will respond. this is a catastrophe scenario.
i don t believe he does have the authority, but presidents have in the past usurped this authority. the bottom line is, once he comes to congress, if it s voted down in congress, i believe that he will be stopped. i will do everything in my power to stop and to have the vote go against involving us in syria. the ramifications really may be such that they may be bad for america, bad for israel. i think there are a lot of things that could wind up happening in the middle east with our involvement that would be unintended and may make the situation worse. before i let you go, september was already a very crowded month for all of the things you have to do, just to kick them down. you ve got the debt ceiling, farm bill, the nsa and the ever-looming implementation of obamacare and now syria on top of that. how will that impact what you have to do come september 9th? you know, i think nothing s more important than making the decision whether to send young men and women to war, and i think
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