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The conflict is getting progressively worse. the death poll is going up. refugee flows are up. there is no end in sight. no diplomat solution, either. not good news for those in the region in syria and not good news for the united states. >>jonathan: andrew, i hate to side with the syrian government but isn't there a point that how you do a cease-fire with a group when there are so many different groups involved? >>guest: the opposition in syria is reacting to the regime's massive and brutal crackdown on the opposition which was at first peaceful so the amended opposition is giving the bashar ...

What do you expect the topic of that meeting will be, and what does he want to achieve? >> well, i'm sure this will be, right at the top of the agenda. there is an argument it would be better for the u.s. and nato to deal with the weapons of mass destruction, rather than israel and, turn it into more of an arab-israeli conflict but it is a risk for israel and everybody, hezbollah, the terrorist group, right next-door in lebanon and we have had reports of al qaeda among the opposition leaders in syria. there are a lot of unpredictable things that can happen if assad falls, refugee flows, humani...

troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. i'll explain. first, here's my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. i'm returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrialized world, the u.s. economy is the most promising of the bunch. the american recovery is not as ...

China is a major stakeholder in north korea. geography is destiny. you mentioned refugee flows. there are already 10 of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of north korean ref few -- refugees in china along the northern border fleeing because of the famine that has been going on for some time now. china, as you mentioned, the other thing about the united states and south korea, about perhaps see agco laps in north korea, the last thing we really want to find out how china would react to a collapse in north korea after it happens. there should be conversations going on right now in discussing...

Could also imagine it begins to unravel, massive refugee flows, the possibility of conflict on the peninsula, it's the reason the markets are so unsettled in asia today. it's hard to imagine good or stabilizing things coming out of this. >> it's also possible to deal -- every time we strike a deal with north korea, it always ends up blowing up in our faces. and when we were talking about the resumption of food for the possibility of -- of them drawing down on their nuclear program, robert gates said it best when he said, i'm sorry, i don't buy the same car twice -- or the same horse twice. and...