which appears to hope that syria s president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth the size of libya, but with three times as many people. perhaps for this reason the syrian rebels have not been able to take control of any significant part of that country. the geopolitics of military intervention are also unattractive. in egypt and even in libya all major regional powers, world powers were on the side of dislodging the regime or at least passively accepting that it would happen. in syria that s not the case. iran and russia have both maintained strong ties to the assad regime,
morning. ets it s going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. thank you. lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the defense secretary. the british soldier was also injured in that incident. leon panetta is in the capital and he s going to be meeting with the afghan president, harmid karzai and that comes days after a u.s. army sergeant apparently went on a violent attack and went door to door in the middle of the night killing 16 afghan civilians and most women and children. this morning, that suspect, a father of t
accepting the rules and responsibilities that come with being a world power. with respect to afghanistan, you know, the impact of any loss of life among our troops is heartbreaking, and obviously as a friend of the united states, there s no greater responsibility and nothing more difficult than putting our troops in harm s way. i think prime minister gilard feels the same way that i do, which is we would not be sending our young men and women into harm s way unless we thought it was absolutely necessary for the security of our country. what we have established is a transition process that allows afghans to build up their capacity and take on a greater security role over the next two years.
good evening, everyone. tonight, as more accusers comes back, there s more news on the penn state scandal. protesters here in new york. like pictures from zuccotti park. the verdict came down as dark descended this evening. the tents were removed and protesters allowed to go back in to get their personal belongings. the new york state supreme court overturning an earlier ruling on this and we are going to have the latest on this breaking story and the implications from the park tonight. but first, we have developing news in washington. the co-chair of the super committee charged with cutting america s deficit said just moments ago, quote, we are in the hours to go. and the countdown is on. this is important and we are watching. the panel of 12 has got eight days, four hours and as you can see 58 minutes i and 11 seconds and counting to make a deal that cuts america s deficit. if there is no deal when this clock hits zero, our economy will be hurt. your interest rates may go
about the european bailout. the dow lost 276 points. the european crisis took a bit out of the u.s. markets and also took out a former u.s. firm. john corzine s company mf global filed for bankruptcy today after more than $6 billion in bets on europe gone bad. it only went so far, the dow was up the best since 2002. the s&p 500 s best gain since december of 1991. stocks were spooked, fitting, because it is halloween. and new jersey governor chris christie told kids to stay home. yeah, he cancelled halloween for people who lost power. all right. the republican candidates seem to be celebrating halloween. we called every single campaign and figured they must all be out trick or treating tonight with kids or grandkids. we re not kidding. only rick santorum, the one with trick or treat aged kids, and herman cain showed up to work today. jon huntsman tried but a power outage kept him home. mitt romney spent the day with his family in boston. you get the point. herman cain had all