general wesley clark. general clarke, thanks so much for joining us. you saw the icy glares, staring at the toast between these two presidents putin and obama. it's sort of reminiscent of the battle days of the cold war. and you served in the u.s. military during those battle days. >> we're back to the geostrategic chess board and this is russia's move. they put a knight into the middle east, so to speak. a chess piece. they pole vaulted over turkey and now they've got their base established and a lot of key, tanks, air defense, combat aircraft, doing drone reconnaissance and presumably soon starting to strike to support bashar assad sfwl but in the process of helping bashar assad which the u.s. is not too keen on but if they do help beat isis the u.s. would welcome that, right? >> well, you would think so. but there's a larger issue that has to be worked also because a lot of u.s. allies don't want iran to dominate the region. and this is really about russia