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That doesn't happen. that is why we attack the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we don't want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, in control of all of syria. we don't want them to inherit the isis territory. we would like to see that held by pro-western, pro-saudi, sunni forces. and that would mean one settlement would be that you get a re...

Starting a cold war with your enemy. >> maybe they will start to do more sensible things with their own people, with their adversaries, that's a hope. >> richard has a point. you're alienating a nation which is potentially pro western, pro american nation which has voted in -- >> iran. you're speaking like a european now. there's nothing pro american about europe. there's nothing pro american about iran. >> iranian population, you get a more pro european, pro western, pro american view than -- >> extraordinary civilization and leaders from the seventh century. >> right. but does alienating -- ...

Is -- and put aside what the trump sons are saying. i do think there could have been a targeting of domestic critics. what we're faced with tonight is that we are probably closer to war than we have been since the cuban missile crisis. the prime minister, who is the most pro-western in that putin government, said after the syrian strikes, we are on the verge of military clashes. i think this country needs to wake up. we're talking about sean spicer and his ahistorical -- i mean he's on the wrong side of a history he doesn't know. we need to remember our history that we are in a very, very dang...

Those attacks? why not a present to congress or the united nations? in terms of russia -- >> let me stop you there because lawrence wilkerson said this. i have seen people calling into the question whether the chemical weapons were in fact from the assad regime. afp was on the scene fairly quickly after the first reporters that i saw get there who had pretty consistent eyewitness accounts of an airplane flying over. >> i'm saying there should have been an independent investigation before the rush because what you're witnessing is -- and put aside what the trump sons are saying. i do think ther...

Against the sunni/al qaeda. there is no meaningful or effective or efficient move right now to turn sunni syrians into pro western -- you know what i mean? there's no one to fight isis in the sunni space. >> i'm trying to figure out what this is, is this 50, that's going to become 50,000 soon? >> should it? >> no, i don't think it will. president obama reversed something he said he wasn't going to do, that's fine. war changes, life changes, situations change. however, what are the russians looking at right now? you're putin, you're sending fires, you're killing isis, you're dropping bombs all ...