next paragraph. we learned from iraq that doing so makes us responsible, a targeted strike can make assad or any other dictator think twice about using chemical weapons. he said on one hand, we don t use pinpricks, we do really big things, and on the other hand, he said this will make him think twice. there is a tension there, as he talks to congress. karl, thank you, as always. you bet. and coming up, saying no to syria strikes, and congressman adam kissinger says yes. did president obama just change their minds? plus, lieutenant colonel oliver north prepared to go on the record. we want to know what you think. just use hash tag greta. united states military doesn t do pinpricks. even a limited strike will send a message to assad that no other
okay, everyone it s time to hash it out. viewer goesing on the record here and chris tweets i agree with roots however there needs tb a sense of urgency. chelsea rin writes postponing the vote is another ploy to help obama gets whatever he wants. greg tweets obama just laid out a case for military action but wants diplomacy. isn t that backyards? and united states needs to show power syria and iran. ron tweets utter failure seems to strike all over the place. and glenn writes president didn t explain no boots on the ground. maybe israel? boots then? you can hash it out with us
phrase vetted rebel groups. there are different groups, i don t think it is clear who the good guys or bad guys are. i don t think that is the way the i think that is the way the american people see it. all over, and around the state. what are the conversations with president putin? the president indicated these have been going on for a while. continuing the discussion at the g-20 summit. but you have to realize that president putin came up through the kgb and ran the kgb. i believe the reset with russia has failed. you look at their own record with chemical weapons. isn t russia s only base in the middle east in syria? they don t want us to hit that one, they want to make sure that that area is protected for them. well, they have been selling weapons to syria, russia has not
lieutenant colonel oliver north joins us. you have to separate them, and then burn them at very high temperatures to avoid dispersing bad things in the atmosphere, that is how we destroyed our own. is that a big process, a procedure? well, it requires security, and various types of security that does not exist in syria, and somebody else does not provide it. and that gets you back to where he said he needs to go. i don t see how that happens. putin s initiative was aimed at one thing, maintaining the naval base. that means they have to keep assad in power. so what putin did with all of that so-called diplomatic foray was give obama a way out. it avoids the necessity of getting a vote. and i compare that speech given tonight to the one that was
question, what does it look like a year from now? or what is actually your best case scenario for syria if assad is gone, and compare this in a way to iraq, with multiple different groups and factions coming together in some way, it was disjointed. and the answer was what? that the current situation in iraq, the numbers of different groups coming together, because there are so many different factions within syria right now. i don t think there is a good solution out there. but certainly relying on russia is not the right solution. senator john mccain seems convinced he has been over there a number of times. i pay a lot of attention to people who have been there and talked to people on the ground, he believes that arming the rebels is a good idea. and that the rebels, it is a defined group of rebels that are good for us to arm and stand behind. do you get the sense the president thinks there is that group? well, the president used the