in libya is stop gadhafi from be slawlgterring his own people. now human rights groups in syria are saying president assad has murdered 2200 of his own people, so should the precedent that was set in libya be applied to syria? well, to an extent, and i think president obama and the allies are having a sensible policy. we ve started very strong international sanctions against the regime. we ve called on the regime to step aside. we re freezing all of their assets as much as we can. we ve got a coalition of european countries, there germany can play a very important role tightening the noose around assad, getting arab countries to participate. the problem, though, is assad controls the armed forces, he controls the institutions. and what the syrians don t want us to do, the syrian people, is a military intervention. this is a very important, strategic area, and we have to be very careful.