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Action. unilaterally, as some sugges suggested, or to think that somehow there is some simple solution, i think is a mistake. >> president obama spoke at a white house press conference on tuesday. today, the president met with the new libyan head of state. as the chairman of the joint chiefs tried to explain on capitol hill how syria is different from libya. >> they have approximately five time more sophisticated air defense systems than existed in libya. covering one-fifth of terrain. >> syria ...

people. syrian government forces continue to fire heavy shells into the city of homs and other areas today. homs is ground zero of the uprising against president bashar al assad. opposition groups say at least 21 people, including children, have been killed today alone. the russian foreign minister arrived in syria today, holding talks with assad and calling for an end to the violence without foreign interference. another development, gulf arab states in france, spain and italy, recall...

More than syria. >> russians enabled the action by libya, and debating on the security council resolution, and they consider that a mistake they wont make in strategicically important syria which is the last arab ally and they say that president obama should force moscow to veto the resolution. >> you dont have a vote and you signal to the arab world and to the syrians in particular, that the u.n., the international community, and more importantly, the united states doesnt care about the opposit...

Everyone times. >>shepard: how much weapons and organization do they have? >>guest: it is strong in the sense this is a bottom up revolution. people of all types are opposing the syrian regime, and they are outraged by what is happening to innocent people and there is -- it is very, very important that turkey has turned against syria and the turkish government is giving aid and support to the civil opposition but to the army, and we hope that we could find ways to limit the ability of iran to su...

>> assad and the rule of his father were based on fear. to impose a regime of terror on the citizen population and make them be afraid of any rising against a rejamie. -- a regime. once it was broken, regime is doomed. we should see the downfall of the regime? the knee future. >>jonathan: many agree it is probably now a matter of weeks or at the most, months, before president assad is forced out. >>trace: and if assad falls what does it mean to the united states? than than the most important cou...

It goes on to say in any country, building a functioning democracy takes more than just one or two elections. its about building respect for the idea that even the deepest political differences should be resolved through deliberation, and negotiation, not violence. then arab news has this headline, if assad falls, israel fears that the democratic government in syria would be an even greater enemy of israel. the same goes for the united states, so the syrian protesters are entirely on their own. ...

Coalitions and the conditions for others to participate, for others to step up. thats really what the american people wanted to hear. >> you wanted to hear more from the president on the u.s. policy toward other countries in the middle east? >> thats right. when you listen to the president and the humanitarian reasons we went in, to prevent slaughter in benghazi. how could you not agree with president obama on that. the problem is,it also translates to syria. i hope assad falls if syria. the wor...

Alliance in the world, it is joined by the uae, by qatar, by the entire mediterranean community is fighting. that is plenty. the world is seeing that it isnt just the united states that does this. and i think the president was at his most compelling when he said, look, were not the global policeman. in the 21st century, what we do as a leader is to create the coalitions and the conditions for others to participate, for others to step up. thats really what the american people wanted to hear. >> y...

States and russia and another proxy war between the united states and iran, which backs assad and backs hezbollah. were going to get more deeply entrenched in this kind of war, arming our enemies that are sworn against us like al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood, for example. this is an extremestrea extreme situation. his regime is odious. hes a brutal, murderus tyrant. but the question we need to ask ourselves is twofold. number one, what are our national interests here at stake? are there any?...

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