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On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remneck talks to Ben Rhodes, President

Obama's National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications. Rhodes discusses the Obama administration's

policy on Syria and considers how U.S. policy may change in the future.

Now, Ben, the president has said recently that he is haunted.

That's his word, by what he might have done differently in Syria.

What does he mean by that?

Well, I think, David, whenever you look at the humanitarian situation in Syria, you can't help but be haunted by the enormous loss of life,

the tragic suffering that's been taking place there. I think one of the most frustrating

elements of dealing with the situation for the present is that we have spent countless hours

reviewing options, trying to think through what we can do to alleviate that humanitarian

suffering.

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