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In, a shiite militant group. coming in to help the syrian government. you have extremists sunnis gaining more traction on the ground. supported by some, some of the al qaeda affiliate in iraq. you have a potential for this to not only get worse inside syria. but really start to spill over the borders. into the broader region. so the importance of negotiations, its really more urgent than ever to get the parties to the table. >> so already in lebanon. were already seeing a proxy war going on betw...

And i are on the same side of this. isolation politics on the right and some will rear its head in the primaries. until that action is assured that some kind of intervention does not involve boots on the ground, it will be hard to see a unified republican position. if they can be assured of that, i think conservatives, most conservatives in washington are pretty outraged about what is happening. effectively become a proxy war. the u.s. on one side and then, you know, russia, syria, the iranian r...

Of this. isolation politics on the right and some will rare iear its hea the primaries. until that action is assured that some kind of intervention does not involve boots on the ground, it will be hard to see a unified republican position. if they can be assured of that, i think conservatives, most conservatives in washington are pretty outraged about what is happening. effectively become a proxy war. the u.s. on one side and then, you know, russia, syria, the iranian revolutionary guard and hes...

Committed his organization to an assad victory stating "this battle is ours, and i promise you victory." joining us now is richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations whose new book is entitled "foreign policy begins at home: the case for putting americas house in order." good afternoon, sir. its a great pleasure to have you on our broadcast. >> thanks very much, martin. >> we will get to your book in a moment, but to begin, syria now appears to be a proxy war with russia and ira...

This one, theyre pulling cameron and the french. >> theyre pulling them back, but you have to realize that syria is, in a way, a civil war under way on top of which you have the potential very nasty proxy war. it is highly complex. i think the complexity david just laid out is there. you have 3 million kurds in iraq so there are national security interests on the borders, on the border states involved. and on the humanitarian side, whats complex there is when president obama made the decision to...

It is a true mess. and i think those who say we ought to do something, ought to say what it is we ought to do. >> before we get to the pottery barn rule that you talk about in your piece, i want to bring in nbc news foreign correspondent -- >> i love pottery barn. >> i know you do. >> they make like new tables look old and stuff like that. >> they do. im not sure thats the rule were talking about. >> makes me feel -- >> like distressed, yeah, i understand that. im distressed right now. if you co...

Hezbollahs sponsor, iran, is playing an influential role in sowing more instability in the region. we have the defense editor for the telegraph, and the author of, churchhills first war, young wins ton and the fight against the taliban. we have an awful lot of players here. lets start off by asking, is israel prepared for a proxy war where hezbollah starts fighting israel and then we get weapons coming up through the south which well show a map in just a bit? is israel prepared for this kind of ...

And its allies. >> the way that were talking about it here and the west and new york is israel versus syria. isnt this really israel trying to sort of minimize the power of hezbollah and keep them as weak as possible? >> absolutely. syria is a proxy war. you have so many regional issues that are now spilling over into it. you have the sunni/shia divide. you have the iranian issue that is playing out there as well. >> russia, lets not forget will. >> absolutely. when it comes to the international...

Strikes to weaken t assad air defenses and military regime. i think you will see all that happen. theyre under consideration in washington. but this is going to be happen in a very i think thoughtful and cautious way so the president knowns when we do something its based on fact. >> we have to look at the regional aspect and how it ties in. its a web really. syria, in many ways, already a bit a proxy war for the varying competing sides. iran and iraq, they dont want to see a majority rule in syr...

Done in terms of expansion, its gone to failed states, whether thats north africa, aqap, the population of jihadists affiliated with north africa has dramatically increased in places like syria, like homs, like aleppo. if youre talking about national security interests, you could make the case on al qaeda alone probably that this is an area where the u.s. needs to be paying greater attention, if not having greater involvement. >> first of all, syria has become a proxy war. what were seeing there...