In Syria, Do We "Have a Strategy Yet"?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 2, 2014

When asked about needing Congressional authorization to intervene in Syria, President Obama said he "doesn't have a strategy yet." Is this a sign of indecision, or measured caution? David Sanger, national security correspondent for The New York Times and author of Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Broadway, 2013), talks about the Obama ISIS doctrine, and what comes next.

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