money for education, we don t have money to put more police on the street. we don t have more money to solve some of the real critical ills we have here at home. so, yes, i ve heard a lot more of that. and i think because of that talk, you re seeing a bigger push by this white house and by this full administration really on making this case. yeah. and dana, when we look at these horrendous videos of president assad s victims, i mean, the evidence, if these are accurate, and we haven t been able to verify them independently, but if they re accurate, they are horrifying. so does this mean that perhaps i don t know, have we become less sensitive to this kind of disaster? i don t think that s necessarily true, and i m not sure i agree that from there is new isolationism in america. i think this is a particular case and if americans felt that, look, i think americans do generally accept that what they re seeing in those photos is what actually happened, but they haven t necessarily ac
indiscreet about your wisdom and your age. but you have witnessed several presidents making an appeal to the nation previously. but isn t this particular president undermined profoundly by the most recent military interventions in iraq and afghanistan? yes, he is. and i don t mind mentioning i was addressed in drafted into t war that president johnson was talking about there so i have a sense of dejavu when i hear presidents talk about we must act because the risk of enacting or inaction is much greater. that s the case that president obama has to make. and i don t think americans at this point are convinced of that. back in the days when we were fighting the commies, the world communist conspiracy efforts, that was the universal solvent as far as public opinion was concerned. as far as syria, we re talking about human rights concern, the case being made over and over again by president obama and the
congress s ability to do anything important, even something such as a war. but we re in this situation that we re in now, and i think they have done a better case of laying out what actually happened there with the chemical weapons. i don t think among the detracto detractors, people opposed to an attack, you re hearing them say they don t believe the evidence. they do believe that. what they are asking, what are we going to do about it? and the problem is, you re getting at least in these open public sessions here, they re saying, well, that s classified, we ll talk to you about that behind closed doors. that s not a very satisfying answer for the american public to say just go along with us on these attacks, and, you know, we ve got it all under control, this will really be effective. we can t tell you what we re doing, but just trust us. there s you know, ten years ago, we learned not to do that. yeah, we did. goldy, do you think the reason people are not on board is because the
good afternoon, monday, september 9th and the commander in chief is trying to persuade a reluctant nation. the united states should take military action. jts even though you ve seen the bodies. how can you talk about what happened if you don t have evidence? assad has barely put a debit in his enormous stockpile. nobody doubts the intelligence. there is video for people to measure for themselves. what does it for america? no political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation. having a few missiles will not restore our credibility. i don t think we re going to do anything to assad. the minute one of those cruise missiles lands, we are in the war. just because he s a murderous tyrant doesn t make it better. i wish he was more of a
freedom and in defense of peace in southeast asia. grenada, we were told, was a friendly island paradise for tourism. well, it wasn t. it was a soviet cuban colony to export terror and undermine democracy. we got there just in time. i am convinced that the dangers of acting are far outweight by the dangers of not acting. dangers to defenseless people and to our national interests. we are now acting, because the risks of inaction would be far greater. four presidents requesting the support of the nation for the purpose of military action. and tomorrow night, the current commander in chief will try to persuade a reluctant and war-weary nation they too should support their president in his plan for military action against sear yeah. i m joined by clarence page. clarence, i m not going to be