transition through the u.n. which is obviously the ideal solution, any time of conflict, even if you re backing the right guys, doesn t mean there aren t other guys there who will take advantage. it could lead to a civil war. right? it s very iffy. david is right. to make one final point, chris, it s, in a sense, not in our interest for this to end suddenly tomorrow with assad going, because the opposition really isn t strong the moderate opposition isn t strong enough. you re creating an iraq-like vacuum, and the jihadists are the strongest fighters. three or four months from now, that s not going to be true. on senator mccain s argument you can do a no-fly zone easily, i m told by u.s. officials that s just not so. you d have to move the patriot batteries that are in turkey almost to the border. they d be vulnerable to syrian air attack. you d have to be prepared to defend american soldiers lives on that border which requires all kinds of additional has any war ever been eas
it s, in a sense, not in our interest for this to end suddenly tomorrow with assad going, because the opposition really isn t strong the moderate opposition isn t strong enough. you re creating an iraq-like vacuum, and the jihadists are the strongest fighters. three or four months from now, that s not going to be true. on senator mccain s argument you can do a no-fly zone easily, i m told by u.s. officials that s just not so. you d have to move the patriot batteries that are in turkey almost to the border. they d be vulnerable to syrian air attack. you d have to be prepared to defend american soldiers lives on that border which requires all kinds of additional has any war ever been easier than we thought it would be? no, never. that s right. that s all i want to know. it s always an underestimation. thank you, david. i respect you a lot. thank you, david corn, david ignacious. anyway, we ve had enough bushes as president.
there, have to get in there. you know, it s not clear it s going to be an easy win or if there s even a great strategy how to get from here to there. while there are people to work with, i still worry about, you know, we worked with mujahideen. there s chaos which became al qaeda. if you don t get this transition through the u.n. which is obviously the ideal solution, any time of conflict, even if you re backing the right guys, doesn t mean there aren t other guys there who will take advantage. it could lead to a civil war. right? it s very iffy. david is right. to make one final point, chris, it s, in a sense, not in our interest for this to end suddenly tomorrow with assad going, because the opposition really isn t strong the moderate opposition isn t strong enough. you re creating an iraq-like vacuum, and the jihadists are the strongest fighters. three or four months from now, that s not going to be true. on senator mccain s argument you can do a no-fly zone easily, i m to
from the ceiling. i didn t hear any cheers. this is still a milestone because look how far stocks have come. we re back to a level we haven t seen in more than five years. many are really kind of, you know, a little i think a little skeptical about this because the economic fundamentals. meaning the strength of the economy. it s not there. many are believing there s really a disconnect between what we re seeing on that screen right now and what regular americans are feeling. you look at the jobs picture. the jobs picture is pretty darn bad at this point. the unemployment rate is at 7.9%. more than five years ago when the dow was at these levels, unemployment was at 4.7%. so it s a very different world right now. there are 12 million americans out of work. and many are asking, is this really justified? why is it happening? the federal reserve has a lot to do with this. what the fed is doing is it s pumping billions of dollars of stimulus money into the economy every single month. what
tina. there is no alternative. and i understand when you say the market is forward looking, but when you don t have a job, you are forward looking because you don t have anything to spend in the future. let me bring in christine rowen mass. let s pop up the jobsrowenmass. let s pop up the jobs numbers. here is the gdp growth. it s a no-brainer when you see this. and then when you also see the jobs numbers coming up that we re still hovering around, what, 8%, right? still away 8% jobless rate? here s what s so interesting. i don t get the forward looking aspect when you still have a crummy economy. because something new is happening here and what s new is that companies are growing and moving forward without adding the jobs they used to. and there is this discussion going on among economists and people who cover the economy about could you have one percentage point growth in the economy, in gchltd chlgdp, and