President Biden delivered a broad reset of America’s place in the world, putting diplomacy at the heart of his foreign policy on Thursday as he signaled to allies Washington is ready to resume its role as a global leader.
all right. we are back now and continuing my conversation with dominic tierney. why do you think it is a bad move for the u.s. to intervene in syria? the whole case for war is based on the idea that chemical weapons are uniquely evil and a threat but the distinction of chemical weapons and conventional weapons is arbitrary, really. it is not clear that chemical weapons are more brutal than conventional weapons like high explosives are less brutal. conventional weapons killed 100,000 syrias. chemical weapons killed 1,000. if you re a woman in aleppo, say, seeing the family blown up by artillery shelling, you re not going to take solace in the fact they weren t gassed. and it begs the question, what does victory mean with this intervention in syria? so why then do we draw a distinction between the united states and the president said it s a red line? why draw a red line with chemical weapons?
weapons. when s the strategy? right? what are the goals of the mission and how are a handful of cruise missile strikes really going to achieve the goals or really change the situation in syria? do you think the goal should be to remove al assad or well, the goals is the goal not big enough, not defined enough unless that happens? this very limited use of force i think is going to achieve almost nothing. but i also oppose a much broader intervention because that creates its own set of risks and already fighting a war in afghanistan. and so my big suggestion would be why don t we fight one war at a time? yeah. all right. mr. dominic tierney, associate professor of political science. say hello to my buddies. love to. we appreciate it. still a lot more on syria developing and we ll get to that but we re also going to hit a couple other big stories,
province and around the capital of damascus, issis will be the best placed rebel unit to take over the isolated bases and move in to the central provinces of homs where it s weak and launch its final attack on the capital of damascus. all right. that is a very interesting argument. i m joined by dominic tierney. so you heard what barack just said. do you agree with this, that it helps al qaeda? i think there s a real risk of that. the radical jihadists are a growing element in the movement and if assad weakens and makes sense they ll benefit. all right. i m going to ask dominic more about that and much, much more coming up on cnn. ou too, like a milk-bone biscuit.
0 where are my windows around here? you have a window that the tourists can see in. that s true. i get to see faces but you get to see the sunshine. have a great day. evening. good to see you. all right. take care. all right. hello, everyone. top of the hour. i m don lemon. we re continuing our special coverage of the syria crisis. boy, do we have a lot to tell you about following the president s decision to hit pause so congress could vote. we start with the parade of leaders from both parties hitting the sunday talk shows. the president really felt very strongly that the congress of the united states weighing in makes our nation stronger in whatever action we take. this is a clear failure of leadership. if you feel so strongly about it and doesn t want to take the action himself, call us back in to session tomorrow. i think also, too, his response was in recognition of many republicans and democrats who were calling for congressional participation. so i think he mad