saying we are going to take strong action. for the president, just go back into the corner and cower, since su sends a horrific message to the world and iran. you need to figure out what the strategic interests are and those haven t been explained well. you re not going to have a strategic interest now where you re just trying to topple assad and hope the good guys, which won t happen, take over. you certainly don t want an al qaeda-backed forces with chemical weapons. and that s what happens if you do regime change. regime change doesn t seem to me to be our strategic interests. we have a particular strategic interest in saying at a certain point, there s a crime against humanity when using chemical weapons against your own people. so you have a tricky balance here of how do you do something to try to retaliate against that. i think if you get to mr. halperin s bad scenario, which is if you do some sort of
prevent this, doesn t match the military plan that s in place. right? they don t seem to be able to guarantee that whatever military strike is launched, is going to be preventing assad from ever doing this again. they think it s most likely that that s the case. they assume they believe that the strikes will be so debilitating to assad s military industrial complex that he won t want to risk using it again, but because the plan doesn t match the rhetoric, i think that that s where there s been a little bit of a divide. what the obama folks will argue is, if the the only way you can guarantee that he would not use chemical weapons is essentially go and seize it and the only way to seize this chemical weapons is to put boots on the ground and, of course, that s a nonstarter. to go pick up on your point on the humanitarian issue, you re right. they didn t make that. nancy pelosi, though, is making the humanitarian case because
than one incident. she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now or discussing it further publicly or privately. in fact it would be painful to do so. the fact there are multiple complaints tell me it s more likely than not there was some sexual harassment activity by this man at that time. georgia businessman, he s in washington, he said nothing about the allegations that threaten his cam pin but mr. cain was in his trademark playful mood as he spoke earlier to a conversation gathering. before i get started, i want to know whose telers are these in i don t need them. several other new developments we need to share. the came campaign, threaten sue the website that first published the allegations. launching a new tv ad, blaming liberals and the news media for stirring talk of scandal and suggesting race is a factor. they can t argue with
depends on are the other allied members of the coalition are probably the weakest reed. i am not sure what they re smoking if they think we can back off and something actually gets done. that s puzzling. the military power of the other people involved. essentially at this point, there are only three options. either we climb down from our goals and let gadhafi come back and take over, which we are probably not going to do, it would be humiliating, devastating, and contrary to why we went in in the first place, or we achieve the initial mission to protect the rebel areas in the eastern part of the country, but not go for regime change. and regime change doesn t occur on its own, in which case we have a set of protracted stalemate. this gets harried over a long period of time. or whether local forces can do it, whether we oral or allies
back off and something actually gets done. that s puzzling. the military power of the other people involved. essentially at this point, there are only three options. either we climb down from our goals and let gadhafi come back and take over, which we are probably not going to do, it would be humiliating, devastating, and contrary to why we went in in the first place, or we achieve the initial mission to protect the rebel areas in the eastern part of the country, but not go for regime change. and regime change doesn t occur on its own, in which case we have a set of protracted stalemate. this gets harried over a long period of time. or whether local forces can do it, whether we oral or allies do it, either it stays backward, stays like it is now, or goes forward. all three options are not good. the happy talk coming out of the administration at this point is