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Comes through from this committee meeting and the floor of the senate and the house that this congress, democrats and republicans, are resolute when it comes to discouraging and stopping the spread of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction. if the united states did not take this leadership role, i don't know who would. i take seriously the president's promise that we will not be putting boots on the ground in syria. i have been to too many funerals, visited too many disabled vets to see us do that again except when absolutely necessary for america's survival. i think what we've done ...

Decides to strike israel. and then israel retaliates and all of a sudden this coalition against assad falls apart because israel joined its side and won't pull together. i agree, which means if israel does respond in that situation, it's going to be a challenge for american diplomacy to limit the israeli response to targets in lebanon against hezbollah and let us handler syria, or if there's extensive escalation in syria, it has to be done by a u.s., nato coalition. the chances of this are unlikely but it's important to think them through. so assad knows if he's foolish enough to escalate, we ...

Limited, more broad level of authority to go into syria to accomplish what? regime change? that's where the people say no. it's a terrible decision and it's a land of bad options. but you -- >> shepard: when all you have is bad options, for people to don't understand. if every option is bad and the one you're considering costs lots of money and has lots of risk, why don't you sit here and go wow, we might let somebody else take care of this. >> the next time a thug uses chemical gas you'll say why didn't we act when we knew the evidence was there and it was overwhelming. why didn't we take act...

Are on the table we mean it. since syria used chemical weapons, we would be in a dire situation in terms of national security. what with need to know is what are the objectives in this limited, targeted strike. >> shepard: it's to send a message and degrade. >> and to degrade and i asked secretary kerry, what does degradatn look like? they have to provide the united states congress and the american people with these answers. and they have to do it before the vote. the vote will be next week, sooner rather than later. >> shepard: we're talking to sources over there already who tell us so many m...

"fox news channel" that united states senate passed authorization for the president to use force in syria. now, this is breaking news as it happened seconds ago. is it unexpected? no. democrats control the senate. the thinking has been that if there was an easier place to get it, it would be the united states senate. the resolution which went through the senate at last draft at least included a provision which would forbid under the auspices of this agreement to allow boots on the ground or much of anything other than a tomahawk mills strike. the president said he does not need this authorizat...