Paul Wolfowitz: “I've never been dismissive of al Qaeda and I think precisely because I think terrorism is such a serious problem.”

I think there's a much larger issue here, which is our whole Syria policy. And we've been sitting on our hands doing nothing while Assad slaughters his people, as said over and over again. More than 100,000 Syrians and now he's taking it a…

But let's also be clear: this didn't start yesterday; it didn't start in 2009. It is the product of a long process of pursuing Osama bin Laden that started under President Bush and continued under President Obama.

Look, I think President Obama deserves enormous credit. It was a tough decision. It landed on his desk. As Harry Truman famously said, 'The buck stops here.'

The problem is not that the president has done too much, however, but that he's done too little to achieve the goal of removing Gadhafi from power. The United States should be leading this effort, not trailing behind our adversaries.