are hailing this as being the great breakthrough. it's a great breakthrough if you don't want to hold bashar al assad responsible for the bloodshed. >> colonel, i want to go to you because i have plenty of questions for you and i had other questions for you, but i want you to respond to what he said, do you agree with fouad ajami that it's about the reputation of the president and not about the people of syria, saving them from their own government? >> yeah, i do agree. and if you -- i am sure fouad is reading the syrian press and i've read a lot of it the last couple days. they are pilloring this agreement. they say it's okay if you kill us if you don't do it with chemical weapons. that's a shame. what bashar has done is buy himself some time. we've yet to hear from the syrians. he said he would like the israelis to sign the same agreement. he'd like us to commit that we're not going to continue to support the rebels which is not