having a conversation isn t bad, it s good. the problem is, the government getting involved in the lives of people. if they perceive the patient to be a danger to themselves and others, so it s a question of how do you get to that point and see it that way. all right, shameless plug. one of the, your own, richard wolf wolffe s new book, the message. started reading it, very good. american principles project director, princeton professor, founder, robbie george was sworn in as chair of the u.s. commission on international religious freedoms, so congratulations. great pair of stories on politico s website. what s wrong with obama, what s right with obama. that s it for this edition of t the daily rundown. up next, chris jansing. i love it! how much do you love it? animation is hot.and i think it makes geico s
makes it very difficult to persuade the congress and american people that somehow we ve become the defacto enforcer of a world norm nobody else is willing to step up and enforce. richard wolffe has a question for you. i want to follow up on that point. you ve described the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable. are you saying that consensus is dependent on other countries say it s also unacceptable to them and where do you draw the line? fran is saying unacceptable and they would join military action. america, if the united states says it s unacceptable and the united states can take action, is that not enough for you? well, i think no, i think we ve got to hear more. as i mentioned, i think the gulf states and arab league have an important role to play here. what i hear on the street and it s a fair question is who appointed us policeman of the world in okay. we ve got you ve got an
lets take a look how it shapes up in each party, how this vote shapes up right now. lets start by look at the democrat this is a quote from tom cole, republican from oklahoma. this is what he said yesterday. obama hasn t got a chance to win this vote if he can t win the majority of his own party and i doubt he can. he is a war president without a war party. richard wolffe looking at the democratic party, democrats on capitol hill, what do you make of that assessment? lets come back to the british situation for a start. the reason they lost was actually because two things, they were incredibly bad at votes, two or three dozen of the conservatives own majority were on vacation, several of the government minister. you have to be able to count and win votes. when you look at the democratic party clearly a substantial minority that will vote again this resolution. so the only way this gets through is for both sides of congress the majority and minority to come together. you re not going
the situation in syria. still with us richard wolffe executive editor of msnbc.com. heather, executive director of the national security network, former state department speechwriter under president bill clinton, josh rogin, senior correspondent for national security for daily beast, former diplomat and official under george w. bush now at american university. so heather, start with you, i send it up there before the segment. everybody has iraq on their minds in some way. the experience and example of iraq. i know we can say there s a lot of distinctions between what is proposed, what s on the table here. is the vote that congress took on iraq after the 9/11 attack was the culmination of almost a decade of efforts to push us into war with iraq exactly, by the way,
the fight over the vote. then you don t deal with the underlying question. so by avoiding the fight over the vote you have obama with international coalition, doesn t have with british parliament vote and realizes he not only has trouble with usual republican obstructionist but a lot of work to do the left with very vocal and mobilized progressive community who is not happy with this doeevelopment. richard mentioned this a minute ago what we have in keeping with president obama before. this is president obama as a candidate back in december 2007 talking about maybe a situation like this. this is what he said at the time. the president does not have power under the constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. jay, that is the case a lot of members of congress making this