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Fighting in the Syrian city of Homs continues for a 10th day, and authorities there have rejected a call by the Arab League for a U.N. peacekeeping mission. The Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass joins Morning Joe to discuss the issue and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Trailer for Little Deaths. From three of England s edgiest filmmakers comes a terrifying tale of life gone horribly wrong… House and Home (Written and directed by Sean Hogan) A well-to-do yuppie couple, Richard and Victoria, pose as concerned religious do-gooders in order to lure homeless girls back to their home for perverted sex games. Deciding upon their latest target, a mysterious young woman named Sorrow; they drug and imprison her before subjecting her to a series of assaults and humiliations. However, the captive girl is not as helpless as she first appears and the couple soon find the rules of the game have changed… Mutant Tool (Written and directed by Andrew Parkinson) Jen, a former prostitute and recovering drug addict, is undergoing therapy in a bid to turn her life around. Her new therapist, Dr Reece, comes as a recommendation via her boyfriend Frank. But unbeknownst to Jen, Frank and Dr Reece have a shadowy criminal relationship. The therapist is involved with a bizarre black market narcotics trade, in which the semen from human mutations created during WWII Nazi experiments is harvested and processed for its psychic effects on the human brain. And now the last known mutant is dying and a suitable replacement must be found… Bitch (Written and directed by Simon Rumley) Stuck in a destructive relationship which isn t going anywhere and lousy dead-end jobs which have no future, Claire and Pete live in a council flat and are united only in their love of rock music. The flame of passion having long since died, the couple derives a strange sexual pleasure from an unspoken sadomasochistic role-playing game where Claire finds new and inventive ways of mistreating Pete and Pete, ever the devoted lap dog, takes what she dishes out time and again. But in an unspoken game the boundaries are hazy, and when Claire unwittingly takes things one step too far Pete devises a way to teach the bitch to heel, once and for all.

Top Talkers: Per a new Fox News poll, President Obama is beating all of the GOP candidates in swing states except for Ohio. The Morning Joe panel including the Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass and Mike Barnicle discusses the poll and the president's Wednesday trip to Milwaukee to tout the country's economic comeback.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that major combat in Afghanistan could end in 2013 and that the U.S. hopes to shift to a 'training, advise and assist role' in the region. The Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass discusses the plan as well as soccer violence in Egypt and a potential attack from Iran on the U.S.