today. liberty mutual insurance responsibility. what s your policy? and we are back with our shadow national security council war gaming the syria operation. wesley clark, nicholas burns, paul wolfowitz and james steinberg. general clark, tell us what you expect is the likely syrian response to a series of strikes
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minorities has happened in iraq. and as in iraq, if we break it, we buy it. for more on this, go to cnn.com/fareed. you can read my time column this week. let s get started. in the coming days and weeks, the white house faces two tasks. first, it has to convince the american public and its proxy, the united states congress that striking is the right thing to do. and then if successful, the u.s. and the military need to carry out those strikes. and in the goldilocks fashion, not too hot, not too cold. how will they do this? we have decided to impanel our own shadow national security council meeting, former sides of
own shadow national security council meeting, former sides of both sides of the aisle to offer their advice. in the role of the military brass is generally wesley clark, the former supremed allied commander in europe. nicolas burns is representing the state department and is now at the sdool of harvard and ended a life as the under secretary of for political affairs. sitting in the pentagon leadership seat is paul will foe lits, the former secretary of defense. he is now at aei. and james steinberg will play our national security role. he was deputy national security adviser to president clinton and the obama first term. he s now the dean of the maxwell school at syracuse university. welcome to all of you. jim, imagine the national security council meeting after let s say you get congressional approval. what would be the thing that you would want to see decided at