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use if you conduct a crime against humanity there is repercussions. so if come saturday he doesn t live up to this timetable and there s more reports about them moving around, is obama right to strike? i mean andrew you say no. i think we have to give the process time to work. i mean, i think we should test his seriousness. my basic criterion is these weapons are not used again. and my worry, sebastian, with a symbolic act is that it s a symbolic act. it doesn t actually advance anything. it may actually make assad more likely to use chemical weapons. no. and i don t think the situation in syria, which is a very different situation than bosnia, would somehow come to a peace agreement. just by bombing. no, no. no one is suggesting that. what the president is saying is there have to be repercussions for this kind of crime. and my understanding of the intelligence is that they have the u.n. inspectors have calculated pretty precisely where those rockets were fired
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100,1,000,10,000. that s the problem with them. that s why it s a crime against humanity. so this is partly about the weapons in syria right now. it s also partly to send a message to the world that if you use if you conduct a crime against humanity there is repercussions. so if come saturday he doesn t live up to this timetable and there s more reports about them moving around, is obama right to strike? i mean andrew you say no. i think we have to give the process time to work. i mean, i think we should test his seriousness. my basic criterion is these weapons are not used again. and my worry, sebastian, with a symbolic act is that it s a symbolic act. it doesn t actually advance anything. it may actually make assad more likely to use chemical weapons. no. and i don t think the situation in syria, which is a very different situation than bosnia, would somehow come to a peace agreement. just by bombing. no, no. no one is suggesting that. what the president is saying is
we will continue to face huge challenges in afghanistan. progress does not come fast enough. progress comes slow at a high price. much more work needs to be done. it s not going to be instant. it is a big, messy process. but it s important that the american people know we are making progress. and i m absolutely convinced we will succeed. the president some saying trying to telegraph the mixed situation there, others say he s trying to have it both ways receipt torically and also on the ground with lives of troops on the ground. i m joined by peter bergen who just got back from afghanistan tuesday and sebastian young, co-directed a brilliant documentary about it, which if you haven t seen you really should, also author of war, which is a great read as well. peter, you just got back. president obama described his exit strategy in afghanistan as on track. while in some shape or form, may be true, he didn t give clues as to what that, starting in 2011, will look like.