whatsoever. they seized upon kerry's gaff and what putin is trying to do quite frankly is ensure that assad stays in power. he is working with iran and syria to create what amounts to a shiite access. basically it is to counter what they see as the u.s.-influenced, sunni dominated nations of saudi arabia and others. >> it is accidental and extemporaneous foreign policy by president obama and has the president really lost sight, assuming he ever had sight, of the middle eastern foreign policy goals which especially means stoping iran from gaining nuclear weapons? >> stoping iran from gaining nuclear weapons and secure israel and combat terrorism. those are the three goals, none of which were advanced by nuclear strike on syria and certainly none of which are advanced by out sourcing our diplomacy to vladimir putin. we don't have a strategy as