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Ally. so the fall of assad would be a huge strategic blow to iran. let me be clear about this. you've been covering foreign policy for a long time. often when commanders in chief have to deal with difficult problems relating to foreign problems and national security, we're torn between our humanitarian goals, principles related to morality in our policy and issues related to just pure national interest. those too often come into conflict. it is rare that you have a situation like we do in syria today where the principles of morality and the humanitarian needs that are calling out for american ...

To slaughter a lot of people. the first thing thevation should do is call this kofi annan diplomacy track off. as it relates to getting resources to the opposition, the saudis are willing to provide funding. the qatarees have been prepared to provide arms, the turks prepared to provide territory. what the region needs to support the opposition is american leadership. american coordination. and that's where we've been invisible. you bet it's tricky. getting the right resources to the right people in any kind of burn oning opposition movement. if we hope to have any influence with the opposition...

Impossible. that is something the opposition says it will not do so long as the president stays in power. the u.n. substantiating the video saying 13 people's bodies were found shot at close range. just adding more fuel to the fire that the atrocities and killing have not stopped. >> this is leading to increasing pressure on the administration. we're going to be talking to dan sen nor from the romney camp and as well to the u.n. ambassador susan rice when she comes out of the u.n. security council and her briefings. but at this point, isn't there the increasing pressure for the u.s. to do some...

The pressure on the bashar family to leave the country perhaps offering them asylum in russia be. >> but so far what we've seen from russia is continual stream of false statements defending what the regime is doing and ignoring the reality on the grounds. and there's no sign that russia is going to intervene. there are some warnings from people in the region be careful what you ask for. right now libya is a mess. there are real problems in egypt. i mean, you know the region so well. what happens without this regime? >> because there's real concern they're not saying so publicly but there's rea...

Their economy rests on their oil production and if they can't sell their product, then -- they really have to rethink how much pain are they willing to sustain for the -- ability to some day build a weapon that they might never want to use. >> moving to syria, what are the hurdles over which the pentagon, the president would have to do something like that, do you think that's at all realistic? >> we are hearing from secretary panetta and from the chairman of the joint chiefs is -- that it would be so much more difficult to accomplish something militarily. the syrian opposition is moving to a h...