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All mean for the civil war in syria? a counterterrorism analyst at the heritage foundation joins us. robin, we've been witnessing this human catastrophe five years, 400,000 dead, five million refugees. does this final signal we're at the beginning of the end? we've got the ceasefire and the upcoming peace talks. >> well, i find it certainly very hard to believe. i'd certainly need to see a lot more evidence of russia ultimately scaling down its involvement in syria than just aircraft carrier. the vast majority of russian air facilities take place using an air base, a russian air base in wester...

We have air facilities and fort facilities. we are managing okay. >> food is being brought in through those routes? >> that is right. we got in touch with our local grocery store and they are bringing food in through the barge. same thing with fuel, oil and gas. and the hospital is getting supplies via air surface. we are adapting >> that is an extraordinary contrast from the folks in the south that are being paralyzed. but you folks chose to live in alaska for many reasons. beside the fact it as a beautiful place. and you are just made of the stuff that allows you to deal with that situation.

Some people are, that in an attempt to destroy some of the nerve agent that we disperse it? >> that would be a planning concern. i think general keane spoke to the particular capabilities that syria depends on with regard to these airfields and air facilities, certainly the tomahawk missiles with a mixed set of munitions in the tom tomk warhead would be able to mitigate the capability of syria to actually demonstrate air capacity and actually disperse chemical weapons if we knew exactly where they were. but i also think that it's more important to get it right. get it right before you even dem...

Said, if that is one option, has this mission failed? >> i'm sorry, could i ni could the question well. >> i'm sorry, if gadhafi remains at the end of the military operation as admiral mullen said is one option and the u.s. has said that he's not being targeted, what is your view of that option if gath remadhafi r in power? >> i've said from the beginning that the plan is not simply there, the end game is not apparent. so as a result of first strikes have knocked out at least air facilities that were at least harming the rebels. but after that, the major question is gadhafi to stay, will there...