This week on Moyers and Company.

I'm Phil Donahue in for Bill Moyers.

We take a look at the deadly civil war in Syria

and consider the consequences of another American intervention in the Middle East.

This menace must be confronted.

After careful deliberation, I have decided that the United States should take military action against

Syrian regime targets.

Our guests include National Public Radio correspondent Deborah Amos.

The great powers have got to find a way to stop this war because the refugee crisis cannot

be solved without that.

And historian and analyst Andrew Basevich.

Syria is not the problem.

Thirty years of failure of U.S. military policy in the Middle East, in the Islamic world,

that's the problem. Thanks for joining us.

Bill Moyers is away this week, and I am pleased to be sitting in for him.

Our subject is Syria.

What began there two and a half years ago as part of the Arab Spring

has turned into an all-out civil war.

Now has come the shocking evidence of poison gas attacks, a fatal escalation that has led

President Obama to ask Congress to authorize the limited use of military force.

And if we take action, where and when does it stop?

Historian and analyst Andrew Bacevich is here asking those questions.

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