rhetorical bombs without consequence. and as much noise as we hear right now about the always wrong peanut gallery yelling that president obama needs to reinvade iraq, there was just as much of that noise yelling that president obama needed to invade syria last year. you may remember. while it seemed for a moment like president obama maybe was going to do that and he was threatening to use air strikes in syria, he threatened that all military force options were on the table in syria. when it came time to maybe exercise those options last august, president obama went to the rose garden and made a speech. he acknowledged the congressional clamor for u.s. military intervention in syria and called the question. he said, yes, he was open to the prospect of military intervention in syria and if our country wanted to do it, congress should vote to do so. congress should take a vote and say that s what we should do
article 1 section 8 of constitution gives congress the job of making the actual decisions about real bombs instead of just throwing rhetorical bombs without consequence. and as much noise as we hear right now about the always wrong peanut gallery yelling that president obama needs to reinvade iraq, there was just as much of that noise yelling that president obama needed to invade syria last year. you may remember. while it seemed for a moment like president obama maybe was going to do that and he was threatening to use air strikes in syria, he threatened that all military force options were on the table in syria. when it came time to maybe exercise those options last august, president obama went to the rose garden and made a speech. he acknowledged the congressional clamor for u.s. military intervention in syria and called the question. he said, yes, he was open to the prospect of military intervention in syria and if our country wanted to do it, congress should vote to do so. congress
decisions about real bombs instead of just throwing rhetorical bombs without consequence. and as much noise as we hear right now about the always wrong peanut gallery yelling that president obama needs to reinvade iraq, there was just as much of that noise yelling that president obama needed to invade syria last year. you may remember. while it seemed for a moment like president obama maybe was going to do that and he was threatening to use air strikes in syria, he threatened that all military force options were on the table in syria. when it came time to maybe exercise those options last august, president obama went to the rose garden and made a speech. he acknowledged the congressional clamber for u.s. military intervention in syria and called the question. he said, yes, he was open to the prospect of military intervention in syria and if our country wanted to do it, congress should vote to do so. congress should take a vote and say that s what we should do because that is congress
even if the rebels there want us to. in fact, it means starting a war in libya. another war in the middle east. the defense secretary putting none too fine a point on that. we also have to think about frankly the use of the u.s. military in another country in the middle east. another one, in addition to the others. military force is not defense or even defense. it s military force, planes, guns, war ships, ammunition, force with a capital f. as much as our country wants to stop what gadhafi is doing in libya, the pentagon is telling congress the military force options for doing that are not good options. joining us now, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel live in the capitol of tripoli. richard, thank you very much for joining us. are you safe and sound out there? we re actually very much in the eye of the storm. it is a very surreal situation
in fact, it means starting a war in libya. another war in the middle east. the defense secretary putting none too fine a point on that. we also have to think about frankly the use of the u.s. military in another country in the middle east. another one, in addition to the others. military force is not defense or even defense. it s military force, planes, guns, war ships, ammunition, force with a capital f. as much as our country wants to stop what gadhafi is doing in libya, the pentagon is telling congress the military force options for doing that are not good options. joining us now, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel live in the capitol of tripoli. richard, thank you very much for joining us. are you safe and sound out there? we re actually very much in the eye of the storm. it is a very surreal situation in tripoli. there s almost an environment