make. yes, i m troubled by the kind of leadership we rexd seeing in washington, d.c. rightxd now, but içó want president obama to be strong and i want america s leadership to be respected around the world. gretchen: of course. today is september 11. hard to believe it s been 12 years since you told president bush in that classroom what had happened. would we be any safer with regard to syria now if we strike or don t strike with regard to this being september 11? i have to admit i don t think the situation in syria represents a present threat to the united states national security interest or to the american people. so i think it s a little different than the situations that president bushñi addressed. but i do feel that when president obama said that there was a red line and that syria had crossed the red line or bash sure assad crossed the red line and there was a consequence, you couldn t be hollow in the consequence and had to follow through. i think diplomatic challenges sho
ships into the mediterranean with a war plan which was incredibly small. steve: unbelievable. brian: unbelievably small attack. we put the pause on that. he put it front and center. what is going to happen is france and britain have come forward and said i have a sense this is a ruse. they re going to go meet in geneva with the secretary of state with his counterpart in russia. france and england are saying this could potentially be a ruse. who is going to secure these weapons of mass destruction in the middle of a civil war? without a war the experts say is going to take seven years to get rid of them. steve: the other thing the president said last night all those points are accurate and true. the president said this particular involvement in syria would be unbelievably different than others. i will not put american boots on the ground in syria. i will not pursue an open-ended action like iraq or afghanistan. i will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like
steve: today as we mark the 12th anniversary of 9-11, we must all remember the first responders who gave their lives to save others and those who continue to keep us safe. peter johnson, jr. is in lower manhattan today with more. peter? good morning, steve. i m here with commissioner ray kelly. new yorkers and americans say a prayer every night for ray kelly, keeping us safe in new york, which he s done for the past 11 or 12 years. he s here to mark this bittersweet morning, rebuilding of manhattan, but to commemorate our terrible, terrible loss, and the loss of police officers, firefighters and first responders. thank you for doing what you ve done for our country. the president spoke about syria last night and about whether we would engage in a military strike on syria. what does that mean for new york? what does that mean for terror in the united states, if that, in fact, happens? the world has gotten much smaller after 9-11. so obviously we have to look at
nation does not want to do in the first place. this is almost unbelievable. i think obama sees this as a way to negotiate, to pause, to draw it out and after a couple of weeks inspections, negotiations and there will not be a vote in congress, there will not be a strike and we will not have the removal of weapons out of syria. gretchen: i actually think this thing will go away. unfortunately it is kind of like the benghazi situation. if you keep saying the story is over, don t need to discuss it, then may be the story is over. i think syria is going to go back to in-fighting and the countries will fall off. brian: in benghazi, the president went to las vegas and never wanted to talk about it again. when mitt romney brought it up, he got blasted and refused to bring it up in final debate. this, the president made it front and center after the world demanded he say something or the country did. then he is the one who set this deadline and he is the one who promised military action an
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