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Described in a way that politically suits the president to gain support. >> christopher, putting aside the abc news reporting, you look at the draft resolution in the senate and see language that has mission creep or seems larger. >> look, you could conduct the entire kosovo air war within the terms of that senate resolution. first of all, look at the time that's allotted. we're not talking two, three days or a week. we're talking 60 days plus 30 more days. 90 days. if you have a sustained bombing or standoff cruise missile campaign, that's an awful lot of armaments raining down day after day ...

Panama. they start out little and become big. >> i'll tell you what i would like to see, and i would be looking for. i would like to see the arabs do the right thing. i would like to see them celebrate, if you will, what american power is doing to this brutal man. i don't want to see the arabs doing the usual thing, hide, duck, and say, oh, this is an american invasion of an arab country. they need to disown bashar because that's beginning of redemption for them. >> fran, what will you watch for? >> we have to be careful to watch for retaliation. what will bashar al-assad do? will he take acti...

Air explosives or thermobaric capabilities. which are bombs. they don't come off of cruise missiles. they come off of fixed wings. to go after chemical weapon inventories. that would minimize the downwind hazard in terms of how those explosives are utilized. it's a bit pedantic. it can be done. >> these cruise missiles as you pointed out last hour are incredibly precise. general marks, thank you very much. coming up in our special cnn coverage here of the crisis in syria continues, will president obama confer with congress? will they debate if he wants to launch these limited surgical strike...

>> right. david kay, thank you very much. dr. k., always good to hear from you. general marks, great to hear from you, as well. thank you for your insight. at the top of the hour, senior citizen's "around the world" will -- senior citizcnn's "arou" will have more on syria and possibility of an attack. we have all the angles covered here on cnn. and still to come on "legal view," one state cracking down on revenge porn. that's when your ex posts inappropriate pictures of you on the worldwide web without your knowledge. huge reverberations like can you get a job after that. we'll talk to the sta...

Towards what strategic goal. sources have been hinting at a limited campaign. pentagon officials saying that the aim would be to deter the assad regime from using chemical weapons again. not targeting the stockpiles or regime itself. general marks, let me start with you. no u.s. troops on the ground. likely no attempted regime change. was the message out of the white house today -- that's what we heard from the white house today. the leading options appear to be an option involving cruise missiles. what does that look like, and what does that entail? >> well, specifically, it's a confusing mes...