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Probe, the harder he will attempt to consolidate his power. >> to be honest, the united states has in the past sub borned dictators and sort of a dictator thought could bring stability. but the united states has not -- we changed the regime in iran for most of that. put someone in who was an autocrat. it's not as if the united states has never before aligned itself. i think the difference is sort of the affirmative praise that you hear coming out of donald trump. i wonder when other countries that we are attempting to either negotiate with in the world, or that we're trying to prevent them fro...

American strike not only to hit syria but send a message to iran about its nuclear program. one member of the israeli government took to facebook declaring president obama's inaction proved israel would have to go it alone on iran. a senior iranian lawmaker visiting president assad to show solidarity said, the american policy of attempting to change the syrian regime failed, as expected. president assad has also doubled down on his threat saying a u.s. strike would spark a regional war. analysts say that is unlikely, but president obama's delay gives everyone more time to make threats. they ma...

We want to vote for this because it doesn't go far enough, it's too little, too late, not going to be effective. they came out of the meeting say, you heard john mccain saying it would be devastating if congress voted no and also say we see the beginnings of a strategy to degrade bashar al assad's strategies, to upgrade the situation and if the president goes out there and ups his game and explains why syria matters, why this is also about iran and about israel, if he explains that to the american people and follows through on the strategy that's not going to just be a pinprick shot across the...

His overall capability. putting people into syria trained by us and regional players that can fight. they're beginning to flow small teams into syria that we've trained. they don't have the weapons they need to take on assad. we need to provide those weapons to vetted rebels. the region, turkey, jordan, saudi arabia, all the gulf arab states need to help pay for this. and they need to start providing overassistance. we need a regional alliance where we're telling the people inside of syria the good guys and the bad guys, assad must go. >> how much of a complication is it, the support from both...

Back home is i'm interested in the outcome that makes us safer. the worst thing is to hit him once and let that be it. we don't need boots on the ground, but we need a strategy that will make sure that assad loses. we're in a war with iran in syria. this is a proxy fight between the iranians and the united states. and we can't afford to lose. if a year from now assad is still in power after all the things we said, what kind of signal does that send to iran? so to the average american, i know you're war weary, god knows i am too. but i'm never too tired to do what's necessary to defend this nat...