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Force against isil. now, this is a great oversimplification of the situation in syria. we have tried, not very successfully, but we have tried as a government to pull together the various opposition elements, the modern elements as best as we can identify them to get together politically and military. for assad, they have always been seen as enemies, as terrorists. it's a smear term he has used for the last three years. it's not true. some are more violent than others. some could be called terrorists. they are critical of the regime and that's intolerable to the regime. >> now that this change...

Essentially over. so at this point, what i would focus on is making the best of a terrible situation. i would put pressure on this isis group in syria. it's long since time to provide serious help to alternative opposition elements in syria so they don't have the luxury of just focusing on iraq. i would accept the fact that the kurdish area of the north is now effectively an independent state. i would make sure they'd essentially what they need. i would provide economic support for jordan, which is staggering under the enormous refugee burden. i would rethink our policy toward afghanistan. the...

We're going to get assad out of there, there's got to be a credible opposition. so we're going to have to bite the bullet on how to do that. we've been doing some military assistance for some opposition elements. we've certainly done a lot of talking to the syrian opposition and coaching, but they have to belly up to the bar. if the president had le-- the leadership has to be in there on the ground. they have to be suffering there with the people and they have to be seen to be leaders. this is one of the basic principals of trying to establish this. all the humanitarian and pressure on russia,...

Is there -- is there the political opportunity for prime minister cameron to develop the same coalition with the president on syria that was done with libya? >> one of the questions which was at the top of his agenda when he called the president to say congratulations on thursday was syria because david cameron was in jordan just the day before yesterday. he went up towards the border. he began to talk to syrian opposition people. we're very supportive of the attempts going on to try to bring the oppositions together. shared frustration between the president and the prime minister that syria i...

The opposition support, for example? >> gadhafi has so few friends, i doubt it. gadhafi does have a track record of negotiating with opposition elements. for instance he led the cease fire agreement with the islamic fighting group. he not only led the negotiations, he actually initiated them. he does have the reputation in libya of being slightly more reasonable with his other brothers, prince. >> general clark, david gergen. peter's going to stay with us for a little bit. if you've been following libya closely, you most likely have heard the story of the libyan woman who burst into the trip i...