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Effect, this will not have much support with the public. how dangerous is that for president obama and indeed, other world leaders? >> i think the main reason president obama has not been more decisive is indeed the public has no appetite for some kind of broader international military engagement in syria. i think, you know, health gotten advisories who pushed him to do that but he's resisted for that reason, and i think as you say, that the problem is that we overreact in afghanistan, we overreacted in iraq, and that has led to paralysis. but at the end of the day the approach in syria, it si...

Those happened anyway. >> fred townson let's talk about president assad because everyone is talking about the need for him to go for well over a year now. we're now at the point of military action and yet that red trick is being rained back. it's not regime change, it's a retaliating attack concentrated on the chemical weapons. this is a bit of a mess how you sell this to an already skeptical public. is this guy a bad guy or not, and if he is, why are we not trying to seek to change the regime? >> that's right, piers. i frankly don't understand why administration would signal that we're not lo...