objective detour and degrade. is this a punitive strike? will it succeed? i think the strike will succeed. whether it detours or not depends how saddam interprets it. can you degrade? of course you can. it s enough. the pentagon knows what it has to do. they have to pick out 50 or 100 targets and strike them hard. they have to make sure they were hit. they have to be military significant in the context of what assad is doing. it s enough. it s not a long-term occupation and it s not any occupation right now. so, yeah, i think it s adequate. but general clark, i have to ask you before i go to general scales, let s say it s 100 or 50 targets and knocks out the defense ministry and bridges and puts holes and runways and takes out aircraft. so what? two weeks later, nothing will have changed. the russians will resupply assad
over that country and shifted the balance there. we have islamist being trained by al qaeda and muslim brotherhood to go to syria and fight and be very careful able stepping into syria and tipping that balance, as well. former congressman allen west and a colonel retired in the united states army and making an emotional plea saying the militariry response against syria is designed to detour and degrade the dictator s ability to use poison gas against his own people. i m about to ask two distinguished veterans whether that s a clear enough objective. they are general west lee clark who was brilliantly the supreme nato commander. i saw with my eyes and general robert scales, the analyst who wrote a critique of the administration s propels. gentlemen, i m honored. general clark, you fist, is this
weapons. this is our american global system. we created this system after world war ii. the u.n., the body of laws, decoration of human rights. this is our world. it not russia s. it s not china s. they are living in our world. if we want to keep it and the advantage is brought to the united states and to many, many other nations. then we re the leaders, and this is about leadership first and foremost. don t get lost in the technicalities of the strike. believe me, 50 to 100 cruise missiles makes a statement. that s the point. it s a statement. general clark, i ll come back to you because i have some questions and some deep misgivings that i ll share. but general scales just on a military level, haven t we sacrificed the element of surprise? isn t the element of surprise one of the crucial military doctrines? the president says surprise doesn t matter. is that true? of course, this violated
objective detour and degrade. is this a punitive strike? will it succeed? i think the strike will succeed. whether it detours or not depends how saddam interprets it. can you degrade? of course you can. it s enough. the pentagon knows what it has to do. they have to pick out 50 or 100 targets and strike them hard. they have to make sure they were hit. they have to be military significant in the context of what assad is doing. it s enough. it s not a long-term occupation and it s not any occupation right now. so, yeah, i think it s adequate. but general clark, i have to ask you before i go to general scales, let s say it s 100 or 50 targets and knocks out the defense ministry and bridges and puts holes and runways and takes out aircraft. so what? two weeks later, nothing will have changed. the russians will resupply assad
over that country and shifted the balance there. we have islamist being trained by al qaeda and muslim brotherhood to go to syria and fight and be very careful able stepping into syria and tipping that balance, as well. former congressman allen west and a colonel retired in the united states army and making an emotional plea saying the militariry response against syria is designed to detour and degrade the dictator s ability to use poison gas against his own people. i m about to ask two distinguished veterans whether that s a clear enough objective. they are general west lee clark who was brilliantly the supreme nato commander. i saw with my eyes and general robert scales, the analyst who wrote a critique of the administration s propels. gentlemen, i m honored. general clark, you fist, is this