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Embolden other regimes to acquire or use chemical weapons. for example, north korea maintains a massive stockpile of chemical weapons that threatens our treaty ally, the republic of korea, and the 28,000 u.s. troops stationed there. i've just returned from asia where i had a very serious and long conversation with south korea's defense minister about the threat, the real threat, that north korea's stockpile of chemical weapons presents to them. our allies throughout the world must be assured that the united states will fulfill its security commitments. given these threats to our national secur...

Increasing pressure by the syrian opposition, could feel empowered to carry out more devastating chemical weapons attacks without a response. chemical weapons make no distinction between combatants and innocent civilians. and inflict the worst kind ever indiscriminate suffering as we have recently seen. a refusal to act would undermine the credibility of america's other security commitments, including the president's commitment to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. the word of the united states must mean something. it is vital currency in foreign relations and international and alli...

Power to get at the chemical weapons. the bombing would spread and probably result in more casualties. if we try to use ground power, well, no one wants to own the syrian conflict by putting u.s. ground forces in there. it is a very difficult situation. there are some things we can do. at this point the obama administration has not shown the mote vags motivation to do those things. >> i read accounts of president obama making that remark with people in the white house saying it was off the cuff, not planned. is that your belief? >> i read the same account too. this is the president of the unit...

This is fundamentally different. it is a commitment by the president to do exactly what he said he would do, get us out in 2014 and move this from a counter insurgency to a counter terrorist effort. >> how tough of a sell is this going to be to terrorist? every year the amount of aid in general and certainly some of the security commitments will have to have been negotiated annually in congress. we know that is probably going to be a lot harder than folks realize. is that a fair assessment? >> certainly it will be hotly debated as to what is the right level of assistance. what is our continuin...

Words again, 1967 borders and, he explained it though it was not enough for the prime minister and his coalition. and, the speech split along the party lines and he earned high marks, from the liberal part of the government and publicly saying to keep the 1967 borders and israelis as a whole seemed happy the president continued what he called iron-clad security commitments to israel. in a moment, rarely witnessed during a meeting between two heads of state, prime minister netanyahu came very close to lecturing the president on friday, during an oval office visit about why his thursday night sp...