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What did it accomplish? >> they were launching more strikes from the same airport on the same city they had been attacking with the chemical weapons. you are right. it did not seem -- again, let's see what they do with chemical weapons. if they launch another chemical weapons attack, then it was ineffective and didn't send the proper message. >> to your mind, this was only about chemical weapons? >> maybe it made sense. >> there you go. that's the point. what the u.s. did was just as a deterrent to chemical weapons. not to the barrel bombs or attacks on innocent civilians. >> that's right. tha...

Into one site and then quickly shipped from the region. russia's prime minister is calling secretary kerry's proposal, quote, premature. let's bring in our guest, retired army major general. thanks for joining us. how realistic, first of all, is the timetable on this? >> it's not realestic. remember, about 40% of the chemicals are in territory in syria that's under the control of the rebels. and assad is continuing to fight the rebels, in part, to keep these inspectors from getting into that area and making a clean sweep. the the good news, as you heard jennifer say, is to their great surprise...

S.e.a.l. raid and the capture of osama bin laden. syria has acknowledged the existence of its chemical weapons, allowed international inspectors in and the demolition of part of its stockpile has begun. but there is still much to do. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. >> reporter: just one month ago, navy destroyers had their sites set on syria. on standby, ready to strike. now 27 weapons inspectors from the organization for prohibition of chemical weapon, the group that just won the nobel peace prize, have already begun destroying assad's chemical d...

Republicans like john mccain have indicated that they have been given more detailed assurances of a much more intense intervention. the administration may want to keep it proportional and limited as obama initially promised but it would be a challenge in selling the case to congress. secretary kerry and his colleagues have described what is at stake and they have done it in terms of vital national interest, the core credibility of the united states. it is a munich moment says john kerry. but in that case, how can american policy and response simply be a stiff warning, a shot across the bow, in...

As the united states deliberates whether to strike syria, i wanted to get the perspective of a frenchman who has been arguing for intervention since the start. bernard-henri levy was instrumental in getting the world to react with libya. he wrote an article called "after gadhafi, assad." explain this particularly with the president sarkozy, we talked about france as being unusually supportive of america, sarkozy was called in france often the american, the neoconservative but along this traditional french socialist, people who have been very suspicious of america and american power.