of islamic extremism and the involvement of hezbollah and iran have the potential to make this conflict an internationally cataclysmic one. either obama doesn t understand the complicated realities in syria or he believes the inevitability of empowering radical islam in the middle east simply isn t our problem. jen nid, the spread of chemical weapons and unstable syria and the rising cost of war are the world s problems. president obama s failed leadership on syria has brought a worst of bowing worlds reality to a head. in talking tough but doing little, he s essentially split the baby. okay. that does it for the cycle. martin, it s yours. it s tuesday june 25th. and make no mistake, the voting rights act is now the in peril. i m about to sign into law the civil rights act of 1964. breaking news from the
here in the united states. so to clarify, we ve done nothing to mitigate the damage or bring the conflict to an end. yet, we re shouldering the bulk of the financial responsibility for the consequences of the conflict. what kind of strategy is this? president bill clinton recently appeared to nudge president obama in the direction of military intervention. reminding him of his own efforts to persuade the international community to intervene in bosnia in the 90s. but syria also recalls another 90s era conflict, rwanda. both the united nations and the united states publicly expressed regret at the way they handled the genocide of nearly 800,000 in the years following that conflict s resolution. clinton lamented later if he had just sent 5,000 u.s. peacekeepers he believed more than 500,000 lives could have been saved. there are differences between syria and rwanda, of course. syria is much, much worse. thankfully, the death toll isn t as high, but syria s location nestled in a seeingin
and on the head of the visit that carl mentioned, the president going to new hampshire and he is or rather of the romney-ryan ticket going. the president is in wyndham, new hampshire and speaking to the first event in the debate and watching later in our 4 p.m. hour ellissen to the president live as he campaigns in another part of new hampshire, rochester chester. kelly. kelly: new questions this hour about syria and what could happen to their stock pile of weapons, if the regime falls. could u.s. troops be called in? we will ask general jack keane just ahead. jamie: beyond the dream, award beginning gospel singer, inspiring a new generation of singers, winans. kelly: winans. geraldo: and how her life has changed since the death of her very good friend. whitney houston.
civilians getting wiped out over syria s troubles, what s wrong with the president s policy. he was late to it, late to speak forcefully to pronounce our values. assad is butchering his own people and we re late to help the opposition to do what we need to do to get that dictator out of there. what i would say about foreign policy i ve been in congress a number of years, that s more experience than barack obama had when he came into office. and now, i ve voted to send people to war. what would you say russia and china, and the u.s. security council and imposed sanctions on them. well, this is a testament to the fact that the reset with russia was a failure. our relationship with russia is weaker not stronger. look at what the frustrations we re getting at security council from russia to begin with. so, i think this is a testament to the fact that the barack obama strategy for the russian reset. i believe with romney that we
forceful stance in condemning what s going on in syria, although they have come out publicly saying they condemn the attacks, but the president has not said assad needs to step down and explain how he would best facilitate that. yeah, well as i was saying, we secured gaddafi s chemical weapons not really known to your viewers, the ceo secured those weapons, rather quickly and dramatically, and put contract guards on them. so, we do have plans, to secure those weapons, rest assured. secondly, our diplomacy certainly, i agree with you, has not been the most successful. and the fact of matter is we leaned on the u.n. and we ve only provided limited assistance to the syrian rebels when all they ve ever wanted for us, they ve never wanted our troops and not even asked for a no-fly zone and they would take it if we gave it to them. what they wanted from us is