with us now is navy captain chuck nash. good to see you. >> nice to be with you, air they will.n can we stop the bloodshed and when might that happen? >> we have to stop being one foot on the fence and one foot off and come down a one i'd or the other. the side to come down on is the side of the army which is the side of the people. when the muslim brotherhood came in after a popular uprising that took out mubarak they said we won't run in the local elections. they lied and they did and they said we won. then they said we won't run in the regional elections and they lied and did. and then when they took power under president morsi they started to change the constitution which passed under a popular referendum. by the time they called in the silent majority they woke up and realized what was happening, voting does not mean democracy. in this case it was one man, one vote, one time. after that it would have been impossible given the changes to the constitution to ever see anything remotely resembling democracy in egypt. a popular uprising now is greater than the one that threw out

let's bring in chuck nash, retired navy captain 1k3 military analyst for some closing thoughts.ho ever decides to take action if they take action, has to be mindful of the consequences. you heard john kerry say yesterday, what are the consequences of not acting. what are the consequences of acting here? i mean, there could be retaliation. not just syria against american interests and israel, but hezbollah and iran as well. >> it is like in football when you throw a pass. three things can happen and two are bad. the unintended consequences of taking action in this hornet's nest is immeasurable. we will have to rack and stack the potentials and plan for those and anticipate those and for once get ahead of national security issues in assisted of reacting to them. one thing to keep in mind, the president said in the rose garden this afternoon, a lot of use of the vertical pronoun, i. i believe, i believe, i -- he is all about the -- he believes this is the right thing to do, to take that action as commander-in-chief. if he does go to the congress like he says he is going to do and t