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Council and pressure on assad regime so perhaps they come to their senses. the third scenario which unfortunately is the worst scenario is that none of that happens and the violence inte e intensifies and spills over into the region. it heightens sectarian fissures and we in effect have a proxy war in which outsiders are supporting the opposition or the government through arms and other means. that would be exceedingly destabilizing and thats why thats not our first choice. our first choice is f...

States, their position so far is not to arm the opposition. many people feel that arming the opposition would only make a very volatile situation that much more volatile. the opposition particularly the rebels want the international community to give them weapons, perhaps even give them more lethal assistance to try to facilitate their operations inside syria. the syrian government thinks that is the reason why there is violence taking place because of foreign intervention. >> thank you very muc...

Point. so that even the russians abstained from vetoing the action. at the u.n. security council, the arab league was on board. it was a no-fly zone that was approved that would have allowed to isolate the city of ben gas zi. had that been where nato decided to stop, they would have had access without any reference to the rest of libya. there was no question of the equivalent of the tensions that involved sectarian engss that involved the shia and sunni splits that could have emerged if we have ...

Individuals. we should increase pressure on russia to cease selling arms to the government and end its obstruction at the u.n. and work with partners to arm the opposition so they can defend themselves. now, you just heard a man said say from the arab world, some of the concern is that if you arm the opposition, you only increase the cycle of violence. how do you expect this to work in the field. >> first of all, ill stunned just listening to that report that the administration is still letting ...

Cairo. we know that kofi annan has left damascus, he and his team briefing the u.n. security council. theyve had a lengthy meeting today in new york going on at this hour. what can the administration do? does it have to now take more action because nothing that kofi annan has done seems to work. >> u.n. officials ho have been briefing the security council members say that the opposition is not going to give up its demands for change but they are saying the only way thats going to happen now is t...