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There's any credible, even the so-called regime of issues relates to the u.n. you are not going to be effective. >> professor lesh, if they were to go through with anything remotely like the massacre, using the egyptian theater as cover to do that, what sort of ripple effects are we looking at? first of all, i don't think there's any bearing to what they will do. they are in survival mode. they will do what they feel is necessary. secondly, if it does go to the extent of 1982, when i hope it will no and i expect it will not, if it does, it will compel the international community to take more a...

To folks who were involved in the planning in libya, and everybody said this would not be quick or kinetic, and do we want to see our involvement? costs which is vital for those in charge of military policy to understand, we have shown so far that we don't understand how to balance military action and other policy tools, state department, commerce, things like that. that's what wore me here. i don't think we have a good past forward. >> do you agree with that, professor? if you do, what do you see as the most obvious or apparent risk to american society, america economy and american reality ov...

First the situation on the ground today. david lesh, professor of middle east history, has interviewed the syrian president receivers. also with us colonel an theory shaffer, senior fellow, well versed specifically to the areas where we are seeing these uprisings. tony, is it a rational fear to think that assad and the syrian regime will use the distraction of the egyptian mubarak courtroom theater to murder these people? >> absolutely. i think we're talking about someone who is as bloodthirsty if not more than moammar gadhafi. when we look back on the days of trying to cut gadhafi off and fro...

Meet that rhetoric with action? that is the very real problem, because of the conveying mire in libya, will there be no resolve to take any interventionist policy vis-a-vis syria? >> has america tied its hands in so many other wars, regardless of your view of them, is the professor ace assertion right we only have so much dried powder and we've used most of it? >> i think we have. whatever we do with syria, we have to consider the fact we may have to do with sauch and bahrain, because they have similar issues running in parallel. we're talking about governments that are not well liked, so we h...