and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it s not rocket science. it s just common sense. from td ameritrade. if the united states and its world partners can t agree on a diplomatic plan to place syria s chemical weapons under international control, how will that mission actually be executed? is there a chance it could turn out to be mission impossible? tom foreman is in the virtual room along with a military analyst, former commander of the u.s. army intelligence center, retired major general spider marks. tom, plain how difficult a mission this will be. let s explain by looking at a map. we ll show you all the places that intelligence forces believe that the syrians have comprised or put together or stored large amounts of chemical weapons. now let me show you many of the
so what now for president obama on syria? on tuesday he will address the country on his proposal to attack syria in response to last month s alleged chemical weapons attack. this week the president failed to get international support at the g-20 summit. and now iran is threatening retaliation over a possible strike. let s bring in general james spider marx a cnn military analyst and a commander at the u.s. army intelligence center. good morning. va loladimir putin says he h plan in place in case of a military strike against syria. now we re hearing others do, too.
of course warn of a destabilization of this entire region, especially of this country right here. one of the things the information minister told me when i did an interview with him. he said that effectively the u.s. would become the air force of allocate tachlt because we know there are a lot of al qaeda affiliated groups in north of syria and damascus suburbs. that is their line. the u.s. says this is about chemical weapons and chemical weapons only, piers. fred, terrific reporting there in a dangerous situation. stay safe and i m sure we will talk again tomorrow. thank you very much. i want to bring in reza asland, the author of zealot, the life and times of jesus cyst, fran townsend, security analyst, member of dhs and external advisory board and major spider marks, former commander of the u.s. army intelligence center. christian, you are a long-standing expert on this
him is he said effectively the u.s. would become the air force of al qaeda because we know there are a lot of al qaeda affiliated groups north of syria but in the damascus suburbs. that is their line. the u.s., of course, says this is about chemical weapons and chemical weapons only, piers. fred, you re doing terrific reporting there in a dangerous situation. stay safe and we ll talk again tomorrow. thank you very much. i ll bring in an author, christian amanpour and james spider marks, former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. christian let me start with you, whichever way you look at it, there is no easy way to look at this. look, it has been left for so
fred, you re doing terrific reporting there in a dangerous situation. stay safe and we ll talk again tomorrow. thank you very much. i ll bring in an author, christian amanpour and james spider marks, former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. christian let me start with you, whichever way you look at it, there is no easy way to look at this. look, it has been left for so long, the united states, britain, france, nobody wants to get involved, if they ever do to topple saddam i mean bashar al-assad. but nobody is getting into the