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There's nobody who actually is arguing that the current path is going to end well, including many people in the administration. you i'm sure have had off the record conversations with administration officials. have i. the administration's clearly divided on this issue. many people in the obama administration are frustrated with this ridiculous course that they're on right now. >> do you think that providing some kind of weapons or money to the rebels is going to change anything on the ground? do you think that that would actually bring assad down? >> andrea -- >> the counter argument, i'm just...

President obama called for the -- for assad to go. we're now almost a year wit president of the united states has called on a foreign leader to step down and he's still standing there. it makes the united states look pretty weak, and you've got to just you know, question how the -- it sort of offends the sensibilities of most americans to watch us just staring at this horrific situation on the ground in syria and the united states looking impotent, sort of bouncing around, one day we say ta kofi annan, get him to work through the process. other days we say we've got to the persuade putin to im...

Overnight that iran has actually been sending in resources to the ground in syria to crush the opposition. so the opposition has got nothing. giving them something about give them a shot at a fair fight, particularly given how many allies in the region are willing to help. so it is by no means 100% guarantee that this will work. but it's certainly a shot at improvement compared to what we have now. >> the administration did say the state department spokeswoman said yesterday that there is evidence that the iranians are involved with some of these militias who went after the people in houla. wh...

States, their position so far is not to arm the opposition. many people feel that arming the opposition would only make a very volatile situation that much more volatile. the opposition particularly the rebels want the international community to give them weapons, perhaps even give them more lethal assistance to try to facilitate their operations inside syria. the syrian government thinks that is the reason why there is violence taking place because of foreign intervention. >> thank you very much for the report from cairo. while the administration relies on diplomacy to counter the brutality o...

Also to ask, frankly who are they arming inside of the syrian opposition? you know and we know it is not a unified opposition. it's fragmented. they don't have the common command and control. there are some extremist elements mixed in there. we know much less about the leadership and the intentions of the syrian opposition than we did even of the libyan opposition at the time. and i want to remind you that we did not arm the libyan opposition. >> let me ask you about some of these outside forces. what is the role of iran in all of this? >> we think iran is actively supporting its long-time all...