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A change must take place in syria but not through violence. most of the syrians want to see change. the change to a true democratic election. democracy, jon, should not be always defined as the west sees it. democracy is a system which should emerge from the country itself. it shouldn't be imposed on the country. jon: president obama says he is convinced that assad's forces launched that chemical weapons attack that killed a thousand, perhaps more people, innocent people, obviously, including women and children. are you convinced, and does that deserve some kind of response of force? >> i will...

Retaliate. >> but it's been a little weird. if you go back to the present statements, all these predictions going back two years, president assad is on his way out, he's going back to may 19, 2011. we keep saying he's about to leave but he hasn't left. >> evidence suggests he's getting stronger and this weighs heavily on the administration. and not only that but the people who are fighting assad, many of them don't appear to be any better it and assad. so god forbid we start an act of war where we wind up aiding people who hate us. i mean, i don't get this. there are no clean lines here. this ...

Better armed. and with syria it's right in the heart of everything. it's a very volatile region. and when the factions that are fighting assad get finished fighting assad, i think they're going to probably wind up turning on each other. what we're looking at here is right now a revolution turned civil war. so this is going to go on for some time, and that's why some of the bigger curves that -- countries that i referred to earlier that he might make a deal with, russia, iran or north korea, for him to get out and get away there's really only one cup that the world would, i think, allow to make...

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In its responsibility to deliver on that commitment from 2013. so either russia has been complicit or simply incompetent, he said, our secretary of state, in its ability to deliver on that agreement, close quote. special emergency session of the united nations security council nikki haley called out their president bashir al assad. >> it could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. it could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. the world is wait...