steelworkers international joins us tonight. good to have you with us. capsulize this for us. they re just not going to do anything for long-term unemployment no matter who or how many imaffects. what s your take on that? let me say, ed, that was one of the most din ingenuous i ve been told by my mom to not call people liars, so i ll just say that s disingenuous when he says they never proposed anybody. the president proposed a jobs bill, he proposed an infrastructure bill and he proposed extending long-term unemployment insurance. if you want to pay for it, let boehner say he s going to cut the tax breaks for the ultra rich and oil companies. the president has already submitted many, many times good jobs bills, infrastructure bills that would put people back to work. that s completely disingenuous. and the fact of the matter is they extended unploemt insurance, i don t know how many times during the bush regime.
itself. with or without u.s. intervention it s factional ayized. syria, post colonial hangover, state cobbled together by colonial powers. people there don t like each other because they didn t intend to be one country. i feel the soldier emerging over here. you re right. our military did a great job in afghanistan, now a solution, not military might, the same with syria. that s because the lobbing our tomahawk missiles does not mean they won t use chemical weapons. that s why the end game is so murky. we need organic solutions within this country. it can t be inorganic. we can t impose our will. that s the arrogance we moved away for in the bush regime. i thought there was a will to impose, the will of the international community on the use of certain kinds of weapons. i still haven t quite figured
hezbollah to attack israel because it provides a certain element of distance. i don t think iran would seriously try to close the strait of hormuz or attack u.s. forces deployed in the persian gulf because that really would unleash a full american retaliatory strike. i think it is a lot easier to go after israel. but it is also why the israelis have been concerned for this possibility for so many years because the cost to them are potentially enormous and yet the cost of an iran with nuclear weapons is even greater. the regime continuously saying that it wants to wipe israel off the face of the map. obviously once iran gets nuclear weapons you can marry that intention with the new capability. patti ann: yeah. just again reiterating those comments iran last week, ahmadinejad. mitt romney recently asked the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu if he is concerned a israeli attack iran would unite the iranians in the wrong way.
reporter: he was meeting the iranian chief of the supreme security council in dam r-frplt we haven damascus. we haven t seen him for two weeks. if you re in charg charge of a country at war you would think he would appear more than that. syria is a central park of the access of resistance. one assumes that s resistance to the west and the arab nations that have supported the rebels so far. apply on words of the axis of evil which syria was considered a part of under the bus bush regime. it s incredible we haven t had any statements from bashar al-assad on what is going on with the war. there were tweets by the russian ambassador saying he feared for bashar al-assad s health, if not he obviously could have been killed. but obviously appearing today that doesn t seem to be the
netanyahu said no, it would strengthen the opposition. he used uganda in 1976 when amin was toppled. do you agree with that comparison? i think it is a an important point. those who say under no circumstances should the united states or israel destroy the iranian nuclear weapons program would simply iranian the people around the regime. i don t think that is inevitable at all. i think the iranian people are actually a lot smarter than that. they don t like this regime. it is unpopular. the young people don t like it. it has been a failure economically and for a variety of other reasons, a well-laid out information campaign that makes it clear that what s being struck are illicit nuclear weapons facilities i think could help precipitate the fall of the regime. that ought to be a part of any strategy to go after the nuclear weapons program too. that is not the end of it. this regime is a threat, whether it has nuclear weapons or not. it has long been the world s central banker for inte