countries are being told by their leaders this man assad, has used chemical weapons but they can t produce incontrovertible public evidence to that effect it won t have much support for the public. how dang vows that for president obama and indeed, other world leaders. i think the main reason president obama is not more decisive is that the public has. ti appetite for some broader help jury. he has resisted for that reason. and i think as you say, that the problem is that we overreabouted in afghanistan. we overreacted in iraq. and that has led to a paralysis in the case of syria. but at the end of the day, our approach in syria, simply, has not worked. the things we tried to prevent like the spread of the war to surrounding countries, like the growing civilian slaughter, the steady escalation of the