when he laid out a very, very difficult set of scenarios, one in which it would take perhaps 75,000 troops on the ground to secure the chemical weapons. that s boots on the ground in order to carry out perhaps one of the goals that s been discussed. so those are the questions that need to be answered right now everything i see it just doesn t added a up to being a successful attack, one that s going to achieve our goals. congressman king, how worried are you about the aftermath of our ally in that area, israel, which iran has threatened to attack should the u.s. strike syria? actually, israel has said that our attacking syria is not going to have an impact on them. they can take care of themselves. that s what the israelis said just the other day. so i take them at their word. and as to what john was saying, i understand his concerns. i wish the president would lay out more what he plans on doing.
not heard and what we are not going to hear is how this is a direct security threat on the united states and our allies? there is not. there is no direct threat. it is a horrible situation as almost every modern civil war is. it is a horrible, horrible humanitarian situation. that should spark concern around the world and hopefully the world community will organize and do something about it. but obviously that s not been the case and we in the united states again are essentially being asked to bear all of the load or 99%. the president has said and quote that this does pose an imminent direct threat to the united states. what happens if it encourages other dictators or other organizations to get chemical weapons and use them? e do something about that and use against us, use against our allies and use across any border would be much more serious situation.
clinton who you remember well launched the airstrikes in bosnia and kosovo and that worked. how about the moral stance? the issue of chemical weapons being horrendous and these atrocities so unspeakable. there is the holocaust and the refrain never again and now it has happened again. what do we tell the syrians who are standing by with that and deal with it as a moral issue? first of all it is unmistake blee horrible. it has happened again. by the way it has happened again in syria. it has happened almost a dozen times in syria. it happened in iraq and we did not intervene at the time in iraq over chemical weapons. it happened against the kurds and it happened against iran. i don t think anybody is debating that it is not horrendous. the question is, is it a direct threat right now on the united states or our allies, and do we get involved in yet another middle eastern country particularly one we have much more serious threats in the
that you re still going through the evidence but that you are planning on voting no. are you convinced that the order came from assad himself? is that something you need to know before you vote? well, that is one of the issues and i m not doubting that the assad administration either high up or even maybe assad himself ordered the attack. but the question really is, what next? we take action, what s that action going to be? and are we really unleashing the dogs of war and are they going to come back and bite us as they have in iraq? i think that there s real serious questions about the day after and in fact the news reports today that woe re talkig about a much broader and tack and longer than we were five days ago. so the question of the attack itself, whatever that might be, and then the day after, are we able to secure the chemical weapons? one should really carefully read general dempsey s letter to the senate of the foreign relations committee in july of this year
have a great sunday and america news headquarters is next. thanks for staying with us for the past three hours. take care, everybody. call on members of congress from both parties to come together and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in. the kind of world we want to leave our children and future generations. selling syria. president obama launching an all-out media tour. s sit-down interviews and address the nation on tuesday. as his administration releases disturbing video showing the horror of chemical weapons in that country. can the commander in chief convince a skeptical congress and a war-weary nation that america needs to get involved in another conflict. in this hour, chris smith, peter king, and with democratic supporting question democratic