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The latest bombing should be a clarion call for international sanctions on the sale of jet fuel to the junta.
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The latest bombing should be a clarion call for international sanctions on the sale of jet fuel to the junta.
Potioned the nuclear deal. your reaction ton what the prime minister of israel just said? >> well, i think the fact that the russians are transferring $20 billion worth of combat aircraft into iran, you know, when that $100 billion is released out of escrow, the fact that $20 billion of it will pay for that russian combat aircraft and other equipment, as well as the $100 million that they're transferring to hezbollah, they are specifically trying to arm those 90,000 rockets they've already given hezbollah with a guidance system that would allow them pinpoint accuracy. they've also offered to r...
Bashar al assad. >> it sure appears that way. if you look at the target sets on both day, neither of these appear to be isis targets. you can't say the russians don't know what they're striking. they've got access to syrian, iraqi and iranian intelligence. they know who's on the ground where. so when they launch these strikes, they know they're going after anti-regime rebels. i think they're just paying lip service to this isis thing. much like the turks did with the isis versus the pkk. >> repeat, paul, that reuters report that hundreds of iranian troops are in syria right now. they're ready ...
Prevent weapons from reaching hezbollah for example. there's going to be a lot of aircraft up in the skies over syria. there could be a miscalculation. and some plane could go down by another country causing who knows what. >> that's exactly right. and i think what we've got right now just makes this even worse. you've got russians, syrians, americans, now we've got the french coming in, in a bigger way. you've got all these different aircraft working for different coalition, different command and control centers, not coop na coordinating their operations. they may deconflict but they're not c...
Going after the moderate opposition. making this what bashar al acid wanted to be a self-full flying policy all along, a choice between assad ultimately and isil and al qaeda. and the way to do that for assad has been focusing his firepower on the moderates and now the russians are doing the same thing. i think it explains one question we had yesterday. which is why weren't the russians working with us to deconflict. i think the answer now is quite clear. they didn't work with us to deconflict because they would have said, here's where we're going to bomb, and we would have said, but there's n...