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I think that's great. >> the text of the amendment is if you're the aggressor you can't -- >> i want to reemphasize a point ari made. in some years we've seen progressive political organizing grow up and become more sophisticated. this is an indication about it. it's not about voting every two years, not organizing and doing direct action with dream defenders in florida. it's about organizing, combining grassroots organizing with civic engagement. you can't go home, keep at it, policies after election day. >> normally the party out of power is the one that has all the issues to organize their ...

And i was just asking her what is the family there saying about what's going on. there is an open border between syria and lebanon. syria has a lot of control over what goes on in lebanon. so there is a lot of fear in lebanon about what's going on perhaps assad will leave lebanon and go somewhere else. >> is the biggest question basically where do we stand in the fantasy of external power over the middle east, whether it's american external power, chinese, russian external power, and what's the balance between the fantasy of external influence, which we sort of lived in since world war ii in t...

Just from that sort of pure utopian vision of this is the right thing to do. >> some people in this situation are more afraid of the alternative to assad than leaving him, and that's frightening. >> ari gets the last word and we'll move on. >> everybody understands these are terrible crises. the problem is moral claims too often overlap with stra teej i go interests and they don't drive the policy. so the bush administration normalized relations with libya. we had a detante after the pan am bombing. we basically said we'll work with you and then because of the moral conditions because of the l...

Get caught with all this you get $100 fine. meanwhile, if a business sells you a soda that size that's a $200 fine. so just to be clear this soda is twice as illegal as this much weed. >> ari, you've said the benchmark for this show's view on soda your interpretation of the soda/weed parameters especially when you consider the number of youngsters particularly young black men we like to throw in jail on the weed thing, i feel like we've -- like this is a real cultural kind of -- something is going on here my man. >> john stewart put his finger on something. he hit on the idea that -- >> someth...

Skriktd stricted diplomatically unless we change the rules. >> to the extent syria cares what we think, they are able to make some change. syria is not going to stop massacring these children because of what we say unless they feel they want to. >> they are not going to be threatened by the rest of the world, and as long as assad feels like i have to keep this violence in order to keep this other sunni in check. surely the arab spring is going to put a fear in him like, i'm not going down. >> krystal? >> i think the point ari made is quite interesting and i hadn't thought of it in quite those ...