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Thought right now. you're the former chairman of the house intelligence committee as we await president obama's important remarks. is there a bit of a walking away, as a lot of observers are now suspecting? maybe it's not necessary to remove bashar al assad so quickly given the terrorist grip that is engulfing syria and iraq, for that matter, right now? >> if you don't get an interim agreement to remove assad over time, that situation gets 100 times worse. these are conversations, actually, wolf, you and i had this conversation about two years ago about the limiting options. the longer the uni...

But there's no doubt the rebellion has changed. as ordinary syrians just want the fighting to stop and dread the chaos that's been unleashed here. bashar assad seems to know this. the man who the u.s. said must go told a group of visitors we are sure we will win. >> there's such a question how deeply america should get involved, if at all. we said we're going to support the opposition, but if that opposition is now radicalized, we give them weapons, whose hands are we putting weapons in? eventually turn back on america. >> we've had it happen before and we don't want it to happen again. there ...

Heavily guarded route, checkpoint after checkpoint after checkpoint. it is now a lifeline. as damascus, the strong hold of the government of president assad, becomes a city under siege. it is a dirty war, in a crucial country. just look at the map. the chaos engulfing syria threatens to spill over into iraq on one time, israel and lebanon on the other. a nightmare scenario for the u.s. the united nations now estimates that 70,000 people have been killed in the fighting, though no one really knows. a u.n. commission called for war crimes investigations of both sides. assad's government, which h...

Other atrocities on youtube. damascus is quiet. no one really walking around. 5 million people hunkered down as the terrible war that's tearing their country apart has arrived here. in fierce battles raging in the city's suburbs. syria's many minorities live in terror of jihadist takeover of their country. before we came here, we visited christian refugees from syria who fled to beirut. they said they were forced out of their villages by muslim fundamentalists, ethnically cleansed. they supported the rebellion at first, but not now. they lost their homes, their communities, their way of life. ...

War-torn nation. >> reporter: the road from beirut to damascus. we drove into syria along this heavily guarded route, checkpoint after checkpoint after checkpoint. it is now a lifeline. as damascus, the strong hold of the government of president assad, becomes a city under siege. it is a dirty war, in a crucial country. just look at the map. the chaos engulfing syria threatens to spill over into iraq on one time, israel and lebanon on the other. a nightmare scenario for the u.s. the united nations now estimates that 70,000 people have been killed in the fighting, though no one really knows. a ...