but i think the point ought to be, we ought to make the president credible, give him the authority but then he ought to do something that is going to affect the situation on the ground in syria. yes, we want end the killing and the threat that syria and what is happening in syria will destabilize lebanon, iraq, and turkey and we also need to end the possibility that it's going to empower al qaeda and in order to do that you need something on the ground that is going to challenge the balance of force between the regime and between the opposition and you need to follow it up by arming the opposition so that they have a chance to show assad that his days are numbered and set up for a negotiated outcome in which democratic regime elements and elements of the assad regime without assad who want to be part of a new syria can come together, can form a government and then can take on al qaeda so