In late october. First we want your reaction to russias military action in yesterday. How should the United States respond . 2027488000 and 2027488002. You can join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan or email us. Well get to your thoughts but me show how you it is playing out. States. The united well start with the miami hearld. Russ war and then syria ou have this, russia attacks targets, but for the u. S. The targets . S, which they say they were targeting slamic state, but u. S. Officials say that the evidence shows they were not. Going after those who. Re opposed rebel nes are targeting groups. Assad foes strike syria. Front pages around the world and here is the guardian out of russia sends in bombers and raises stakes in syria and from the dailyis tar in lebanon, Russia Strikes thrust syria war into deadlier phase. From the times out of england and they have some eadline, putin defies the west with strikes on syrian rebels. Gasoline risk pouring on the fire. That from the white house. Ake a listen to what defense secretary ashcarter had to say was asked yesterday if russian air strikes aimed at laces other than those with isil forces. The reason one of the russian position is contradictory is that exactly potential for them to strike places may well have in where isil is not present. Others are present. This is one of the reasons kind of esult of this action will inevitably be to the civil war in syria takehy its illadvised to his kind of action in support of assad only without pursuing a political transition there and trying to get e them to that same position. Question exposes exactly what is a fallacy what why it is failure. I want to make sure i understand. Saying then that the strikes were in a place where you believe there were no isil and therefore leads you to that . Want to careful about confirming offense. In it does appear they were areas where there were probably and that is one of the problems with this whole approach. Host look at this map put washington he post. This is where russian air yesterday. K place that area the pink area, the ighter pink is assad regime controlled area and the darker pink is where the rebels are. Gray area that is where isis or isil have control. Green control being where are in control. Defense Ministry Said they were state d at islamic targets. Ow should the u. S. Respond to this russian action . Harry, youre on the air. Good morning to you. Caller thank you. I wanted to bring to the that ion of everybody is america should use every people to get involved. Get nk they should involved. We need some diplomatic resolution and we need to defeat isil. I think that is the ultimate i think that theyre out of control and get he resolution with syria, why not . I think we should encourage very country, especially the super powers whether russia or china getting involved so there a resolution and not be policing everything but get the biggest example was working. Think its i think getting other people involved would be the best thing and president obama is doing anything and the major states is playing a role in the solutions in the world. Ost how is that goal russia shed when believes that allah sad needs to stay. Caller think assad is doing the wrong thing. If you remember shall the using with ey were the help of russia we could the chemicals in syria. I think assad could be diplomatic solution and let the people of syria take over without fighting. Ut again, i think we are assad. D about isil than said about russia and the United States brokering with the help of russia on the chemical weapons that assad was using against the Syrian People reports have noted that there were some of those weapons not on that list including chlorine that were not destroyed. On the front of the with the he on the chemical weapons that washington ng against the assad u. S. Insists that must go. Nd the helping to bolster the not that is antiassad isil. Blind sided by the unexpected obama ss, the administration scrambled to saying it initiative would not be bullied and it was significantly expand its own syrian air operations. After spending much of the day closed doors, russiany john kerry and in a statement that u. S. And Russian Military officials would meet to did he conflict their operations in syria. Side by side outside the chamber they said they reached some in a statement that u. S. Preliminary and a way forward toward negotiating political indicated they were far from agreed on its outcome. No questions. Earlier in the day, russian western brushed off other s suggesting countries get involved under russias leadership. What do you think, fred . Caller good morning. Yeah, this is a result from leading from behind. Hese actions countries get involved under russias leadership. What do you think, are grown o policy. As foreign it brought in the muslim goes into and he libya and creates a vacuum where ruining that. Are actual back to the g beginning of the presidency that let everybody know we were out and our enemies are over. In taking its not the good guys in charge. Hes letting the bad guys take this is going to set us back decades to clean this mess up. Who is really to blame for this who voted twice for king obama. Ost russian moves in syria alarm. Putin wants to lead an anticoalition and wants other countries to follow him. Perry. Ependent, hi, caller hello. Thanks for taking my call. Invited in by syria o attack isis and the Free Syrian Army which are both u. S. Of a. He air is violating syrias pace not isis. Lafayette, grace in indiana. What do you think of all this . Caller i think we should stay of there. I think those people over there their own care of and i think their leader has to go. I had four children in vietnam war g the in washingtoncans chomping at lutely the bit to go, theyre not concerned about the american they do ill have to vote democratic and stay with democratic. Ridiculous. Let those people over there take care of it. Out. Ed to stay host take a look at the washington post. Kerry signals u. S. Will expand european erations and allies have echoed secretary of the answer stence annot be found in the military alliance with assad. Their they redoubled commitment to the coalition and rejecting any role in sear why assad whose brutal was responsible for. He rise of the militancy if there is any Silver Lining to found it appeared as the coalition evolved. Political r negotiations so that attention toward thelly turned Islamic State. The International Community has than three years to replace assad and end his an assortment st f extremists and moderate fighting groups. Larry, good morning to you. A black army veteran and it is the bush in this ation got us mess. This war is causing 2 to i million already and dont i believe well have to be over there for a hundred years. This is ridiculous. Put this mess on obama. And is the republican mess their policies. We are never going to be able to leave that place. Nice day. Host because this is from the New York Times about that price figure. While the pentagons 500 million and equip train fighters has failed at one point or 5 onth only 4 combatants were in the fight. Ias Covert Program has weathered some setbacks to fighters 000 to 5,000 in the nearly two years it has been operating so. That price to 3 lot larger than 2 million. Ike in florida, an independent of t. Hi, there mike. Aller it was the republicans that put us in the mess after iraq. Hen we invaded the middle east was relatively calm to what it is now. If anybodys to blame its not the president and not the former its the administration. Say. s all i have to host devin in illinois. Republican. Think its st utterly stupid that we were this and we basically just gave it up for russia. Disgusting. We should just be doing the air strikes. Bizarre. Urkey should have some type of its in this too which busine bizarre to me. And i should just go back think we need stronger presence with the United States in the east. E host you might be interested is how theing whom New York Times puts it. We back. Ho e oppose the government president and other islamic extremist groups. The United States leads a conducting air strikes nd in iraq and syria and been carrying out a Covert Program program to fight the Islamic State. Ussia is backing mr. Assad and opposes the Islamic State which thousand Young Russians join. Militants blowback of attacks. Ack to launch has long supplied arms to syria but they carried out their wednesday es on dropping bombs near the central city. Despite russias stated goal of now under he state, the control of militant group. Turkey is backing the and d States Coalition pposes principally the Assad Government and kurdish groups p. K. K. , anomaly also state. Lamic allow out the American Coalition to use turkish air bases. Backing mr. Assad and syrian government. Militarybeen providing upport and Financial Aid since start of the civil war. Audi arabia is a number of groups and opposes mr. Assad and the foreign minister on tuesday new york said there were no circumstances in which his russian ould accept a effort to keep mr. Assad in power. Britain are part of the not fighting because of strong opposition to in syria. France also part of the u. S. Led recently are just expanded its air strikes against and other state iraq. In syria as well as so theres all the players and what theyre doing. Bret a democrat. Good morning to you. What do you think . Caller good morning. That its high time that america step back and stay out this fighting going on in the middle east. These people handle their wn business and clean up their own mess, saudi arabia and countries these other over there. President obama brought the young men home. I dont want to see another on ica die for whats going in these other countries. Host take a listen to what mc cain had to say the chairman of the armed committee. He says this needs to be u. S. Intervention. To say. Hat he said putins ambitions are blindingly obvious. Play king maker in undermineission and u. S. Operations. Is this week at the United Nations president obama said is prepared to work with any nation including to resolve the syrian conflict. Requires several delusion of tremendous scale to believe that iran have any interest in resolving the syrian conflict. Seek only to keep the power. Us assad regime in russias intervention in syria and complicate this war and the mabeneficiary will be isil. It is tragic. Fellow agic, my americans that we have reached this point. Syrian conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people crisis the worst refugee in europe since world war ii, army of 10s rorist of thousands and now created a russian autocrat an iranian theo syrian deck up a tatar. To be this way. Consequence. He from a total lack of american leadership. Chairman of the Armed Services committee. Heres kevin mc carthy, poised speaker for the epublicans in the house and then senator gary peters, emocrat in mission and pat roberts who used to chair the Intelligence Committee senate allowing putin to danger yria is a great to the United States. Himes in connecticut the New York Times this morning, theyre reporting this, run news media strongly endorsed the move by russia. Pleasedmed particularly accept sending military aid. Putin harbors reasons for interfering in syria. E wants to restore russian influences of global power and try to force an end to the and financial solation after moscow seized crimea. He also wants to maintain ontrol over russias naval station in syria, only remaining outside the soviet union. Reporting gton post this, that john kerry suggested yesterday that policy underway in washington would soon bring sharply increased u. S. Air against the islamic tate which he emphasized continued even after the russian own attacks. Up that mean theyll take authorization of military force. Kerry had to say at the u. N. Yesterday. Any ited states supports genuine effort to fight isil and affiliated groups, especially he will his ra. If russia reflects a genuine ommitment to defeat them then we welcome them and deconflict operations and multiply the ilitary pressure on isil and groups. But we must not and will not be onfused in our fight against isil with support for assad. We over we have made clear would have grave concerns should isil strike areas where and alqaida affiliated targets not operating. Strikes of that kind would question russias real isil or s fighting protecting the assad regime. To your calls on what u. S. s response be . Arlington, ing from virginia. Caller i dont know that we ant work with the russians on this. Iranians had good relations and in there have been forever. It is whether you like it or government gitimate and all these retkeubgsz it was going to fall apart you get hose at the beginning of every year. Something different has to be tried. And i think it can start by a coverage by the press, fox was terrible in its a saudi and mixed up attack on a Wedding Party in emen with the opening of the Russian Campaign as far as were concerned and it as the Free Syrian Army and i suspect it was really he will they were hitting. It is a complicated thing and were not going to get anywhere russians to say the ave no interest in there and try to start a fight where we with them e aligned in as far as getting rid of some of these guys. Out a we can work political solution, thats nice. Of the w lets get rid cancal guys and see what we do about legitimizing it. Hi, sandra, youre on the air. Caller hi. On, what nk is going im seeing from my reading is the major cooperations are actually doing things behind the scenes. For example, Lockheed Martin is those fighter jets, right . Ell, they paid turkey 12 billion last year to make components. Scenes s behind the funneling money to the taliban other hanistan and terrorist groups. Are making le that oney from the weapons are keeping us in perpetual war. What im saying . Host yep, we hear your point. Rudy from texas. Caller thank you for taking my call. The warning from saddam all wars e mother of has come true. If you see closely all the top africa is under war and to me sounding like sounds t to blame obama like theyre talk about themselves. I dont understand it. Host what do you mean by the of all wars . Aller okay. I didnt take it as a boast, i took it like maybe is a little hecy too harsh. Warning. As like a here it goes. Mother of all wars. Saddamre you saying that hussein at the time was saying these tribal ing et licts, sunnishiite, cetera . Caller he seemed have to everything pretty well in order at the time and i believe that and derstood you remove me youre going to create all kinds place. Licts all over the and the mother of all wars was like a ast, it was warning. Ost take a look at the usa today. S in Obama Administration to moscow that would be a significant mistake. The russians cant defeat the Islamic State. Contrary. Russian intervention in with iran may fuel t even more and if u. S. Military partners in the region really think washington has moscow, theground to region could become even more chaotic. Obama has potent relatively low risk options if hell use them. Impose safe zones in syria to nd southern security. Ter Thomas Freedman echos that putin wentaying that into syria looking for a cheap russia gh to show that is a world power. Obama and kerry should leave him up for a month. And watch him become public number one in the sunnimuslim world. To you a democrat. Do you want to react to that, rudy . Caller i agree. You know what, this is a regional conflict. In its just goes going to get involved in they shouldnt be in. This is a mid east problem. Let them take care of themselves. Russians want to go this theyll wind up in in the same roblem we did where theyll lose men and money. Ideology and not something that can be taken care physically no matter how many of them you kill as long as you more of them. Like stirring up a hornets nest. Host theyre dealing with their own problem and russians leaving to go fight with isil. E told you at the top that lawmakers hornets nest. Host theyre dealing with their own came together and down. 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