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What i do see is that the experience of a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan with precious little to show for it, has essentially bled the will of the american people to get involved in these kinds of things. before we went into iraq, i thought it was a terrible idea. not because getting rid of saddam was a bad idea, he was a horrible dictator, a horrible tyrant. i didn't think the american people had the will, the desire, the vocation to occupy another country year after year, $2.5 billion a week. hundreds of thousands of people dead, and for what? i think that that's the context in which ...

Have had chemical weapons used before, during this war. >> multiple times. >> yes. and so senator mccain and senator graham have been absolutely correct, that there has been no strategy, no confrontation. total impunity as the assad regime has ratcheted up every step of its offensive since it started two and a half years ago. you know, from on the ground to then from the air, and rockets, and then weapons of mass destruction. i mean, weapons of mass destruction. that is something that is prohibited under international law. iraq didn't have them, syria does. >> we're going to talk more about th...

Totally sympathize with the american public that says, we don't want to go there. >> you were obviously in the first bush administration when it launched the first gulf war, there were warnings then that would spiral into a regional conflict. there are warnings from people -- are those concerns real, that this thing could spiral out of control? this intervention could spiral out of control? >> things have spiralled out of control. there are 100,000 people dead in syria, it is spilling over and destabilizing jordan, emboldening iran, hezbollah. the notion that we can -- it would be different if...

The options as a just in case option if necessary. it's the destroyers that you have to keep your eye on. all of them are armed with 40 tomahawk cruise missiles. those can fly 900 miles, they can be reprogrammed to strike targets at mid flight. that range allows those ships to stay well out of the range of any syrian retaliation. >> want to bring in our panel, chris, thanks for the reporting. also joining us is vice president of defense and foreign policy studies at the cato institute. former commander in chief of the u.s. central command. appreciate all of you being with us. general, let's st...

About this, does it harkin back to iraq? do you see this through the lens of iraq and afghanistan? >> not exactly. what i do see is that the experience of a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan with precious little to show for it, is essentially bled the will of the american people to get involved in these kinds of things. before we went into iraq, i thought it was a terrible idea. not because getting rid of saddam was a bad idea, he was a horrible dictator, a horrible tie ran the. i didn't think the american people had the will, the desire, the vocation to occupy another country year after y...