Humanity, why could we not bring the evidence to the court and find out who is responsible . To court and allow the world to participate in a trial, so to speak. You could have evidence presented, both sides could give their side and then a judgment could be made that would keep the u. S. Out of it, keep the u. S. Out of taking the lead. It would certainly give the president an opportunity to duck out of this red line. Do you think syria would be able to participate in that . Caller i think for the United States to respond just with weapons as the president seems determined to do, it is going to create blowback. It always happens and will probably create more terrorists than not. I think personally we are a nation of justice and a nation of laws. The moral leadership would be to go to an International Court where the whole world could view a fair trial that is carried on by people in the hague where people have no ties to syria. He could all stand back and brought toce whomever is resp
Are available fors eerie gun for syria. When we examine new figures on what it means to be a household in the u. S. Tomorrow morning at 7 a. M. Eastern. Next, a for him on this. The book war from earlier this week. They will talk about potential u. S. Strikes and opposition. Minute. 90 ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is frederic hof and on behalf of fred kemp, the president of the Atlantic Council and michelle done, the director of the center for the middle east, i would like to welcome you all to todays program. This is a joint production of the Hariri Center and the Atlantic Council. Over the past two weeks, we have witnessed a truly extraordinary chain of events that began on the 21st of august with a chemical attack in a suburb of damascus. In the fullness of time, i think we will probably know for sure what motivated the assad regime to take this step and what it was actually thinking. In terms of trying to get away with it. What is objectively clear at this point is
Sometimes difficult to have allies in the sense of planning . They are extremely difficult sometimes. Going back to world war ii, the only thing worse than fighting a war with allies is fighting one without one. It has been sobering to see how few of our allies are stepping forward to help the United States think through what is next. The british have opted out of striking. But president obama is taking the same approach that theyve it cameron did, and he is going to his legislature, going to the congress of the United States to get support. When David Cameron did that, it failed. He said i would not strike as a result of that. The president will spend a lot of time over the next 10 days to get the support. He is reaching out to the American People to make sure he has the support of the American People before he does this. Host tony, democrat, good morning. Taking myank you for call. The first thing i have to say is they say the meaning of insanity is when you keep doing the same thing
I can understand how aggressive theyve gotten in certain areas. The trip to moscow worries me because there are serious things happening in that relationship that would not have happened were it not for the absolute collapse of faith in the United States, and while there may be good things that can come out of it for the saudis to be off on their own, a lot of bad things can come out of that as well potentially. But that is the kind of uncertainty that we are dealing with in the system that i think has led to quite a bit of trouble. I agree in the first place that syria now takes on this huge importance in terms of trying to convince the iranians that we are serious. I think that operation is now going to need to be something that perhaps the president and his team did not think a couple of weeks ago it might have needed to be. It will now need to have real effects on syria and on other adversaries in the region, that they do not want to test the United States in this regard. I do not
And now david has been murdered in the most callous and brutal way imaginable by an organization which is the embodiment of evil. We will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes. More tough talk, but does haines death move the needle politically and is the uk ready to step up now that theyve lost one of their own . Joining me now, Cnn Senior International correspondent ar wa damon in london for us, Foreign Editor for the daily beast Christopher Dickey joining me in new york, and cnn senior political analyst david gergen is with us as well. Arwa, let me begin with you. Weve heard tough talk from David Cameron there. Are other british politicians on the same page . Thats what we have to wait and see to find out. He most certainly at this stage is trying to drum up whats been up until now severely lacking Political Support for more involvement when it comes to the overarching battle against isis both in iraq and in syria. Those two fights are goin