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That will change the strategic balance on the groupd. >> that would be a marked escalation and would require, one would imagine, possibly congressional authorization. some argue this requires that and also strategic commitment over duration period of time and further meshing in the conflect. >> certainly it is better than telling the syrian air force don't leave your air bases and have us put carrier groups there to maintain 24 hour air cap. my guess is if you tell u.s. air force to take out the syrian air force in a matter of weeks they would do that. they take casualties. the s-300 air defen...

>> well, they're probably pretty good against the threat that they were against in january. when isis sees what the -- freshm french or americans or russians are going to do to counteract them, like a football team they're going to find seams in our defenses, and they're going to go in that direction. and that is what they did here, they found and exploited a weak ness and that will happen all through history. as we go forward every time we make a move they will make a counter move. 9/11, nobody on 9-10 would have believed that anybody with box cutters could kill 2500 people. but they changed ...

Taking place. they have been hitting in many instances areas that were already being bombarded by the assad regime. areas where isis is not known to have a significant if any presence at all. and the rim effect from all of these has caused a lot of concern because the way they look at it, assad now has a very powerful ally in russia that is taking direct actions on the ground that are going to have immediate impact on the battlefield dynamics. allow assad troops to move in and regain territory. whereas america that is meant to be the so called moderate oppositions ally really is not doing anyt...

We strike once and that's the end of it. that means he hasn't planned what the move and counter-move will be. it's simply a rash thing to do. it really is. >> amazing. ben west, a man who has seen a lot of war. this is really remarkable and confusing moment and we appreciate your illumination. >> tucker, the way i look at this is very simple, as a marine grunt in three wars, any time i took a grenade and pulled that pin, i knew that things were going to happen to bad people and to some innocent people. you have to balance that. if the president were told, and every member of congress, you're t...

Retaliation are the headline today. >> yes. >> dana: but i wonder about the longer term issues, ongoing trade negotiators and partners. have we figured out a way to best china or will china possibly be able to do a deal with other asian nations, the 16 nations and basically blocked united states from those markets? >> well, you are free of the tpt, the transpacific partnership. it was a hedge against china and then the u.s. backed out of it. and the other nations are moving ahead without us. it is a chess game. very complicated. i had made contact with a man who does business with american far...