CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think this is astonishing -- the way that my colleagues have described it -- but the most astonishing thing is the lack of any urgency. As you say, Congress will be back in a week. He says, 'I can strike in a day or a week or a month,' as if he is a judge handing down a sentence and the execution can be any time in the future

JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS NEWSHOUR: David, to you first. Has the Obama administration made a compelling case for going into Syria? DAVID BROOKS: Not public. But I do think they have a compelling case. You know, we have an international system here. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because of it. And

REP. JIM McDERMOTT (D-WA): Well, It sounds very much like Iraq. We've got the drumbeat of war, and we're giving the -- they're giving us the bums rush that everything is all in line and everything is perfect. I remember [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell going to the United Nations and telling us the very same sort of thing. They knew everyth

Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Clarence Page.

FMR. GOV. BILL RICHARDSON, FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR: First, Chris, I support the president. I thought Secretary Kerry was very eloquent in laying out the moral, the legal justifications. I was U.N. ambassador. It'd be nice to get a resolution under Chapter 7 authorizing military force. The problem is the Russians will veto It, they've said they would

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century. Yesterday the United States presented a powerful case that the Syrian government was responsible for this attack on its own people. Our intelligence s

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Well, look, the real problems, beginning in the last century, was the growth of Germany, how to contain it. Europe didn’t know how to do it, they ended up with two world wars as a result. The analogy today is Iran in the Middle East. It's a rising power, it's an aggressive one. It's a have-not power. It wants a place in the s

Reason TV: As the Obama administration beats the drum for yet another military engagement, here are three reasons we shouldn't go to war with Syria. 1. It's not our fight U.S. foreign policy - especially military actions - should proceed from clear and compelling national interests. But neither the president nor anyone in his administration h

WOLF BLITZER, CNN: In an article you wrote for CNN.com, you wrote this, I'll put it up on the screen. You said, "America's wars must be debated by Congress, declared constitutionally and fought only for the interests and security of the United States. They should never be fought to save face." All right, so what do you mean by that

TUCKER CARLSON, HOST: Congressman Kucinich, I've always thought you were one of the more honest liberals anywhere. This is a tweet you sent out today, I believe, you said this: '200 in Congress demand Syria vote. Constitution Article 1, Section 8 - Barack Obama risking impe

CORNEL WEST: Brother Martin himself, I think, would’ve been turning over in his grave. He wants people to talk about Wall Street criminality, he wants people to talk about war crimes, or drones dropping bombs on innocent people. He wants people talking about the new Jim Crow and the privatization of education, and the various ways in which the we

GOP: In this week's address, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) discusses the struggles of American small business owners and the roadblocks they face from Washington. From President Obama's unaffordable health care law to delaying construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the policies stifling job creation must stop. House Republicans offer a plan to br

President Obama discusses Labor Day and reflects on the contributions of the working men and women in our country. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hi, everybody. This Labor Day weekend, as we gather with family and friends, we’ll also come together as a nation to honor some of our own – the working men and women of America who, across the gene