solution to this and if that doesn t happen, then the president would get the authority to do the military efforts. so i think that that has to be the needle that s being threaded tonight. the whole hearted, you know, full throttle attempt to pursue this diplomatic initiative to it s end and if that doesn t work, also, to build the case for a military strike. let s not forget the massive and international debate over what won t be a land war or any kind on sustained military campaign but perhaps a couple of days of cruise missile strikes and perhaps air strikes they call stand off strikes. does anyone believe that they are getting into a war that will end up that raises an interesting problem is that there are two rational for the action but two groups of people who want some kind of military action. the people who want action that deals with the issue of chemical weapons and the importance of
shifted. it has. it brought russia slash syria to this position now. we re waiting to see whether it s serious and what they will say when it comes to the united natio nations. will russia agree to have the threat of force in that. putin says no? right, where does that leave us? i think that there is no question about that. the president needs to make absolutely clear which obviously he will in his speech that that is what he s going to go after continually if this diploma see doesn t work. he was obviously a politician but says knowing how this works, he was convinced in the g 20 meeting a week ago, president obama convinced president putin he was serious and going to go and take this military strike unless there was another alternative. so i think, you know, he s got to make the moral cause about weapons of mass destruction and make the cause about the credibility gap of the united states, if they don t pursue