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There is an obligation to try to do something, anything, not make the perfect the enemy of the good? >> i don't think that a bombing necessarily accomplishes that. i think that perhaps a targeted strike on assad would. but -- >> take him out. >> yeah, taking him out. i think that would send a message. >> that makes you smile, colonel. >> well, i sort of agree. i think we missed our opportunity about 18 months ago. you know, we didn't start the civil war. the civil war was a home-grown thing and we could have capitalized on it and then come to their assistance. that was the call for action. we ...

Emboldened if we don't act. i think under those situations -- under those circumstances, we must act. and if i had to vote today, i would vote yes. >> congressman grayson, you also have been part of the security briefings, have you not? >> yes. >> and you come away with a much different opinion. you don't believe we have to strike. you don't feel the same moral compunction to act. why not? >> clearly we don't have to strike. i think that's indubitable. we shouldn't strike for several reasons. first, it's not our responsibility to act alone. there are other ways to deal with this problem. third...

Hour, begin the strike, then go to the american people and say we have warned assad not to use chemical weapons, this is in contravention, all that stuff, we have decided there had to be a response. we could not let it be unanswered. the united states had put its credibility on the line. he would have had congress with him. he would have had the public with him because there is a natural rally around the flag when the president makes a decision like that. and the world would have been somewhat divided, as it is now, but the point is it would have been done. it would have been -- he would have ...

Got to get in there, humanitarian disaster. this is why we're doing it now. so with this strike, it says, you know, oh, obama's like oh, maybe a month from now, it will accomplish our strategic objectives. it's preposterous. >> to say that none of these targets are time-sensitive i think is incorrect. >> this makes you crazy as a military guy, this delay. >> the whole thing makes you crazy. you're giving your enemy at least ten days' warning. they've got time to move things around, hide things, and alter the entire landscape of where you have to attack. we have yet to lay out the strategic obj...

Committed against the syrian people. >> miss atassi, one of the problems that the opposition and people in support of a strike here are running into in the u.s. are videos like came out in the "new york times" yesterday of one of the rebel groups in 2012 executing people who appear to be members of the syrian military. brutal video to watch. we're not going to show it right now. we are. there's the headline of the "new york times." the picture, at least. you can see that execution from 2012. how do you convince the american people that an air strike isn't helping the individuals behind brutali...