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Potentially make the situation worse, not better, by committing american arms. first of all, this is not a simple proposition. the syrian opposition is badly splintered, and if you give them relatively low-level arms, there is not going to be enough to overcome the momentum bashar al assad has. if you give them high level, more potent arms, then the risk that they get into the hands of jabad al mushra and the islamists is great and has security consequences to us down the road. the bigger question is, what if we do win, and what if this new government is formed that has u.s. backing? how long ...

Missiles against their own people, they are sending battles of patriot missiles. that's the nation of turkey. turkey requested the missiles earlier this month. today we found out they are not only getting the missiles, they are getting 400 americans to operate them as well. that will have huge security consequences if syria decides to project over their border into turkey. now there will be not just turks there but uniformed american military personnel as well. it's decided to approve a report more than three years in the making. senate investigators spent the last three years reviewing docume...

Testifies on afghanistan be he goes to the region. lugar's statement already has said it's unrealistic to expect that a significant downsizing of u.s. forces could occur at that time without security consequences. the lack of clarity in afghanistan does not end with the president's timetable. savannah and luke, i wanted to play a bit of an extraordinary interview that our own rachel maddow did last night. this was her question to holbrooke in advance of today's hearing. >> i think the question strategically has been what can we do in year 10 that we couldn't do in years 1 through 9. >> it's re...