the great threat is artillery. as jennifer said early there are 15,000 guns dug into the hardened artillery sites facing south. the 170 military gun and the mrl multiple rocket launch can reach not only many american units but reach through most of seoul. the great fear is that the north koreans will do some some provocative act to hold the advantage. the fear by u.s. commanders is the north will fire a few rounds at the south perhaps at a u.s. mail tear rebase with conventional round, maybe fire a scud and then basically force the american-korean coalition to respond. and that would be sort of a nightmare scenario, jon. jon: the pentagon has responded this morning, and let me read off of the computer what the pentagon spokesman george little said. he calls this a well-worn
rebels. that is the problem. we have no national strategy. we haven t begun the debate how will you live in the world where you have people, talk about the peace process which is an insanity. the morning he arrives there are rockets fire inside israel and we talk about a peace process as though one faction of the palestinians could deliver if they wanted to. of the most militant factions want to destroy israel and hezbollah wants to destroy iowaial and the muslim brotherhood wants to destroy and western go around if only we had a peace process? with whom? chris: karl levin joined john mccain in calling for the president to consider a irstrikes to teak out the syrian air force and scud missiles. same question i had for speaker
israeli intelligence folks were pwraoeufgs an briefing us. they said after the first gulf war when the iraqis were firing scuds into israel. united states pleaded with israel not to respond to that because the americans were afraid of fracturing the coalition which contained a lot of arab countries at the time. they wanted to hold it together. the israelis did not retaliate for those scud filings. after the war they did an analysis in the neighborhood and the arab neighbors saw that as the first time israel failed to defend itself and saw it as weakness instead of strength in no not stead. heather: thanks. bill: jon scott standing by
some of them exploding less than a mile from president assad s home. meanwhile, more calls from congress about america stepping up to the opposition. here s intelligence committee chairman mike rogers of michigan. we create a safe zone in the north, meaning think of this. the assad regime has used approximately 100 scud missiles so far on civilians. that in and of itself should prompt action. so we can do this in a way that doesn t lure the united states into a big boots on the ground conflict but use our small group special capabilities to make sure that scud missiles don t reach their target. nbc s ayman mohyeldin is live for us from cairo. aman, a lot going on, the bombings, the questions about were chemical weapons used last week and our ability to find out. give us the latest from the ground. reporter: well, as you mentioned, a lot of developments. if you start with some of the military ones, or at least in terms of the fighting intensifying in the capital of damascus now
possibility for the jihaddist rebels. that is the problem. we have no national strategy. we haven t begun the debate how will you live in the world where you have people, talk about the peace process which is an insanity. the morning he arrives there are rockets fire inside israel and we talk about a peace process as though one faction of the palestinians could deliver if they wanted to. of the most militant factions want to destroy israel and hezbollah wants to destroy iowaial and the muslim brotherhood wants to destroy and western go around if only we had a peace process? with whom? chris: karl levin joined john mccain in calling for the president to consider a irstrikes to teak out the syrian air force and scud missiles. same question i had for speaker