bugging out in 2014. that s not being serious in terms of committing to victory. senator, always nice to see you. fox news leyland witter joins us from jerusalem with the latest in the middle east. what s going on there? right now we re back to the war of words before the real world inside president assad saying, the middle east is a powder keg, and there s a chance of regional war if he is struck. that s a thinly veiled threat against israel. two things going on, one, president assad pushing ahead strongly with his civil war against the rebels. he wants to make up as much ground as he possibly can against them. before a military strike. he s moving around his weapons, we know he s deployed his scud missile teams, making it much more difficult for the united
just doesn t make sense to go all the way up to a threatening military strike, and then back off. especially when you view it in the context of iran. people here in israel saw it as a sign of great weakness by the president to not come out and enforce his red line. one israeli lawmaker said, this just proves we re going to have to go it alone if it comes to attacking iran. another one said, wait a second, this is a higher moral standard here in terms of president obama s inaction in syria. america has a moral obligation to move forward against the syrian regime, immediately and making the point every day, that the syrians civil war continues, in more days and people are dying in the streets of damascus and all around that country. either by chemical weapons or conventional weapons. leyland, thank you. joining us is ambassador john bolton.
just doesn t make sense to go all the way up to a threatening military strike, and then back off. especially when you view it in the context of iran. people here in israel saw it as a sign of great weakness by the president to not come out and enforce his red line. one israeli lawmaker said, this just proves we re going to have to go it alone if it comes to attacking iran. another one said, wait a second, this is a higher moral standard here in terms of president obama s inaction in syria. america has a moral obligation to move forward against the syrian regime, immediately and making the point every day, that the syrians civil war continues, in more days and people are dying in the streets of damascus and all around that country. either by chemical weapons or conventional weapons. leyland, thank you. joining us is ambassador john bolton.
bugging out in 2014. that s not being serious in terms of committing to victory. senator, always nice to see you. fox news leyland witter joins us from jerusalem with the latest in the middle east. what s going on there? right now we re back to the war of words before the real world inside president assad saying, the middle east is a powder keg, and there s a chance of regional war if he is struck. that s a thinly veiled threat against israel. two things going on, one, president assad pushing ahead strongly with his civil war against the rebels. he wants to make up as much ground as he possibly can against them. before a military strike. he s moving around his weapons, we know he s deployed his scud missile teams, making it much more difficult for the united
0 waiting. if president obama was really serious about this, what he would have been doing, is he would have been assembling a coalition of the willing over a couple years. certainly since the first reports of chemical weapons use, and that does that pry date august 21st? this would have been the original reports of chemical weapons used. he should have been assuming that the coalition, the willing was the world s red line and he should have acted. he should have moved the military assets in place and he should have acted. by not acting, by leaking this, by hoping someone else will support his action, what he s done, he s really backed america into a corner. he s really backed himself into a corner. at this point, i ll reserve judgment to see how serious a plan they re going to lay on the table. but i m going to have a very difficult time supporting this authorization, if it s really about restoring president obama s credibility. you talked about the fact that he had the auth