quote, inside syria. >> that's a double-edged sword, because both russia and iran have been helping to rearm sirria the assad regime. those are those in israel and the united states who believe that syria's weakness and distraction internally could be the moment to go after iran militarily because syria could not come to iran's help. the bottom line as gillian said, as was wrote in the "new york times" yesterday. it's 1,000 miles for israel to get to tehran. they do not have great refueling capacity. i'm told that they have about seven refueling planes for mid-air refueling on the way. they have to carry 5,000-pound bombs which are not guaranteed to be enough bunker buster to get to the underground facilities. and it is unclear that israel and the united states know where everything is. although they say the intelligence is very, very good. so it's not easy. they might get a wink and a nod and even help on refueling from the saudis, they're not going to be able to fly north through turkey.