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It started with nato's 1999 air campaign against russia's ally serbia. it got worse when the west launched air strikes against libya's moammar gadhafi in 2011. >> mr. putin basically came to the conclusion that never again. this will never happen again. they will stick by mr. assad and syria. not because they particularly like mr. assad. but because they see him as the legitimate president or legitimate leader of syria. >> and russia now claims there's little difference between president obama and president george w. bush and they predict if assad falls, what comes after him could be even wors...

I'll give you the final thought, ralph. >> he can agonize all he wants. he needs to put america a's interests first. this guy doesn't think strategically. he thinks politically. if you try to think politically on this one, you're going to end up, no matter all the protest station, killing americans, ruining our credibility and putting bad guys in charge. by the way, if assad falls, are we going to step in to protect the christian and jews and shia minorities? we have no plan, megyn. it's impulsive childish behavior. >> panel, thank you at all. up next, kelly's court takes on a case in san di...

Syria, just take one huge issue, for example, the chemical weapons. you know, so if we go in there, right now they're presumably under the control of assad, presumably secured in some way. we go in there and assad falls. what happens to the chemical weapons? who gets them? do we secure them? i've seen an estimate it would take tens of thousands of u.s. troops, boots on the ground just to be sure to secure the chemical weapons. are we going to go there? >> yeah, that's a great question. hey, let's move on now, mika. >> we'll get to the annual fortune 500 list which is out and ranks the largest ...

The others. if assad falls, as you point out, the guys the guns will ascend to power. >> right. frankly, our government doesn't have the sophistication to choose, arm, train, back the right factions in a situation that's grown so terribly complex. again, on one side we have assad backed now by hezbollah fighters in syria. on the other hand you have the various jihadi stripes including al-qaeda types, and my god, the average syrian is caught in between. decent people are dying every day, but then you get to the question, and i'm racking myself over these questions. i want a moral stance for our...

Unit, in conjunction with our arab league. when do we have the arab league asking the united states to help them through a very difficult circumstance of which they are eager to get involved? and, by the way, already are getting involved. many argue they are getting involved in a way that is uncoordinated and probably at the end of the day, maybe even unhelpful to what happens after assad falls. fights between sunnis and shias and extremists versus secularists are brewing. with a little bit of u.s. leadership and talking a little bit and most americans wouldn't see this in "the daily news" oth...