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Complicate whatever the next chapter is. >> general marks, do you see this as ending the misery in syria or as even a step in that direction? i mean, even if it did -- >> no -- >> -- cut out chemical weapons, 100,000 people have been killed by means other than chemical weapons. >> anderson, here is the confusing part is that if we want to be punitive against assad and we're going after his ability to employ his conventional military forces and to deliver chemical weapons, that will do nothing to eliminate assad and his regime. we learned this lesson in iraq when our initial mission was to remo...

Theoretical premise, is that if you let rich people have a lot of money, that they'll hire people and they'll have jobs. that's what people have interpreted trickle-down economics to mean that. >> right. >> that's not what we're talking about. what you're talking about is tax code, trade policy, capital market policy, banking policy dictate where capital flows, and because that's not a good or a bad thing, that's a mathematical fact, and you can choose that capital to flow into investment in your country. >> right. >> where did that get lost in all of this? how did this come about not taxing r...

Why are we still there and what do we think we can accomplish? >> well, they're very specific purposes why we're there. number one we need to make sure that the al qaeda does not have a training ground and a grounds over which they can prepare terrorists who attack america the way they did september 11th, that's where the training of the september 11 hijackers took place and where the plans were laid before they dispersed out to other parts of the world before they came to the united states. secondly, you can't decouple pakistan and afghanistan. pakistan possesses a nuclear weapon. the governm...