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Action. unilaterally, as some sugges suggested, or to think that somehow there is some simple solution, i think is a mistake. >> president obama spoke at a white house press conference on tuesday. today, the president met with the new libyan head of state. as the chairman of the joint chiefs tried to explain on capitol hill how syria is different from libya. >> they have approximately five time more sophisticated air defense systems than existed in libya. covering one-fifth of terrain. >> syria also has the largest stock pile chemical weapons in the world. ten times that of libya, according to...

people. syrian government forces continue to fire heavy shells into the city of homs and other areas today. homs is ground zero of the uprising against president bashar al assad. opposition groups say at least 21 people, including children, have been killed today alone. the russian foreign minister arrived in syria today, holding talks with assad and calling for an end to the violence without foreign interference. another development, gulf arab states in france, spain and italy, recalled their ambassadors today, as well. so coming up in about ten minutes we're going to break down wha...

More than syria. >> russians enabled the action by libya, and debating on the security council resolution, and they consider that a mistake they won't make in strategicically important syria which is the last arab ally and they say that president obama should force moscow to veto the resolution. >> you don't have a vote and you signal to the arab world and to the syrians in particular, that the u.n., the international community, and more importantly, the united states doesn't care about the opposition in the streets. >> the u.s. has been trying to convince russia that they'll eventually go. >>...

Everyone times. >>shepard: how much weapons and organization do they have? >>guest: it is strong in the sense this is a bottom up revolution. people of all types are opposing the syrian regime, and they are outraged by what is happening to innocent people and there is -- it is very, very important that turkey has turned against syria and the turkish government is giving aid and support to the civil opposition but to the army, and we hope that we could find ways to limit the ability of iran to support the assad regime. >>shepard: but iran is supporting it? >>guest: i think without a doubt the i...

>> assad and the rule of his father were based on fear. to impose a regime of terror on the citizen population and make them be afraid of any rising against a rejamie. -- a regime. once it was broken, regime is doomed. we should see the downfall of the regime? the knee future. >>jonathan: many agree it is probably now a matter of weeks or at the most, months, before president assad is forced out. >>trace: and if assad falls what does it mean to the united states? than than the most important country of all of those in the middle east, where we have seen the revolutions this year. if assad fall...