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Direct aid to the syrian rebels. that was positive. my guess is, andrea, that the administration is going to be really challenged over the next couple of months. theres a risk of a widening of this war into lebanon and possibly into iraq and jordan. we dont want to see that. were also involved in a proxy war of sorts between the u.s., turkey, the arabs, the europeans on one side. iran and hezbollah in a way russia on the other. we should want to see a result that weakens iran. so i think that wi...

Syria. what is your bottom line in terms of the role of hezbollah, away were seeing today in these bombings arks consideringed to most of the experts, please weigh in, is that this is really a sign of rebel strength closing in on the assad regime. >> well, it is. to try to connect all the dots here, which is really not ease where i to do -- if you could draw a line and call that the she ooit access. hezbollah, which is a shiite armed group, also political party has been covertly -- everybody kin...

Ene enemies. thats a legitimate conversation but the smear stuff, the stuff about, to a certain degree, jim inho inhofes op-ed is basically saying chuck haig is a meat eating oil man, republican and he doesnt want obama to have that brand in his cabinet so that obama can use that is, use the republicanism as a way to basically cut the pentagon into other things and to legitimate as by partisan some of the things obama wants to do. there have been lots of criticisms. chuck hagel has become a sand...

News stories. were going to get to the coca-cola story, but this is about chuck hagel. and chuck todd, ben wrote about how the pro-israel lobby won the chuck hagel fight, saying in part this. "the good news for hagels allies and defenders is that schumer offered his tentative support for the former nebraska republican senator. the bad news for hagels allies among realist foreign policy thinkers and on the foreign policy left is that the nominee appears to have gotten schumers support by repudiat...

Foreseeable future is the fighting simply continues. >> such a proxy war how can other nations support the rebels against iran? >> that would have to be the next step. the fact is that even with all of these sanctions against iran that have been imposed because of the nuclear weapons program not only have they not reduced irans progress toward nuclear weapons which is an issue that hangs all over this including the conflict of syria but it has not reduced their supply of arms and finance as best...

World, russians believe number one, that the rebels have a real chance of winning and number two, russianses have serious concern. the russians have a key port on the mediterranean that their navy bases out of in syria. theyre certainly worried if the rebels win or when the rebels win look like now is a possibility that they will lose that port and this diplomatic maneuver may be a chance to save a little bit of face and influence in that new syria. patti ann? patti ann: leland, what other power...

To keep tear influence inside syria and may be trying to play both sides of the coin here. they want to keep assad so they have influence with him and to hedge their bet to gain as much influence with the syrian rebels so if the rebels win they get to keep the port which is their only naval port outside the russian federation. going forward this turned into a little bit of a proxy war. a number about weapons the rebels are getting especially coming from outside powers. obviously president assad ...

"we will keep going until we reach bashar assads palace," he said, "from the hospital bed." rebels capturing more ground and prospect of a long civil war scene unavoidable. israel will do the utmost to defend itself against threat that the israeli prime minister in graduation from the pilot. netanyahu himself flew to jordan for a meeting with the king apt how to secure syrias chemical weapon. jordan knows firsthand problem of syria civil war. hundredhundreds if not thousandf syrian ref few gees ...

Proxy war in the sense russia and iran are protecting assad and the other gulf states are supporting the rebels that are fighting fiercely. as long as theyre willing to keep fighting, proxies supply them with money, political cover and weapons, so its difficult to see how a peaceful solution will happen while everybody on the sidelines is pouring money in to continue the war. >> neil: the. >> the civil war in syria contributing to a growing refugee crisis. >> crisis is putting it lightly. theres...

Nsc and state department. he said he thinks its a proxy war. maybe theres a personal issue between one or another of the senators and susan rice. she worked for john kerry in the 04 campaign. she was in the clinton administration as an assistant secretary for africa. her policies in africa and suh dan were controversial. there were other issues shes been involved in, but shes got a very big job at the u.n. there are meetings on thursday and a general assembly vote has been scheduled on palestini...