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Iran was helping assad win and we could not consider the geopolitical ramifications of letting iran win this victory and so then you have assad there and iran, more powerful than ever with an iranian election tomorrow and more, you know, forceful leader presumably than ahmadinejad has been. it's just the worst possible calculation. and also the weakness that it projected throughout the arab world for us to be dragging our feet. i mean, if the president had not said that the chemical weapons was a red line, i'm not aware of other intelligence, but we have to be concerned, where are these chemic...

But i think the fact was that iran was helping assad win and we could not consider the geopolitical ramifications of letting iran win this victory and so then you have assad there and iran, more powerful than ever with an iranian election tomorrow and more, you know, has been. it's just the worst possible calculation. and also the weakness that it world for us to be dragging our feet. i mean, if the president had not said that the chemical weapons was a red line, i'm not aware of other intelligence, but we have to be concerned, where are these chemical stocks? where is assad now moving them? w...

>> we can't risk letting this country in the heart of the middle east be destroyed by vicious autocrats or hi jacked by the extremists. >> reporter: still, many say the administration needs to do a lot more. >> assad has air sue superior y superiority. another possible, down-the-road alternative is a no-flight zone. >> reporter: but there are a lot of risks. >> there are a lot of groups there. some of them you don't want to be giving weapons to. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting. john kerry is scheduled to travel to continue the dialogue on syria. the white house is taking its most...

On the other hand, you talk to libyans and they desperately want u.s. involvement. maybe not troops on the ground. you know, i don't think we should send troops on the ground and many libyans would not want that either. but the kind of intervention that has happened so far in terms of no-flight zone, no-drive zone, air strikes. that is something that seems to have overwhelming support from libyans themselves. and that's a huge difference from iraq. >> now, you know, i've been talking about this throughout this show. it seems that people cannot get it through their thick heads that maybe the ex...

Our joint operations with pakistan, at least, you know, trying to secure that border with afghanistan. and really no clear goal or end in sight? >> well, i think it's going to be important that the president explain this in great detail with the american public as well as to the congress. we kind of backed into this last week. you know, the position of the administration had been until late last week, we're not going to go into libya, we're not going to participate in a no-flight zone. the administration changed very suddenly. we had the u.n. security council resolution that paved the way for ...