either arming the rebels, so-called moderate rebels, against isis, nor against assad. what we have here is assad being propped up by russia and russia moving to join be iraq and iran. we weren't even aware of what these diplomatic moves were until, you know, they hit us in the face the last 24, 48 hours. >> well, a couple of things. i agree that we have failed to undermine assad in this military campaign, period. i agree. we should have done more. it won't work just to go back to, let's try to bring assad back. it won't happen. because that is the video that all sunni muslims see every day, that he is killing sunnis in his country. that is what inspires the jihadists. if we don't try to tackle that problem with or without the russians, we'll never be able to resolve this civil war or at least reduce it.