every time. now you ve got, everybody is excited about the wrong stuff, megyn. everybody in the journalistic community is excited about scuds because they remember them from the gulf war. scuds are raty old weapons. if you fired from fox in midtown manhattan and tried to hit independence hall in philly you might hit camden. unless there is chemical or nuclear warhead on a scud it is useless. it is a terror weapon. what it tells me the assad regime no longer has many pilots it can trust not to defect to turkey or jordan and who are still willing to fly against the new air defense weapons the opposition had. so the meaning here isn t, oh, scuds are terrible. the meaning is, assad is getting increasingly desperate and even though the chemical weapons seem to be on the back burner now i would still watch that space. megyn: we don t want to address that problem when they re on the front burner, ralph peters. no.
it is a big step. there is a small element of the, of those who oppose the assad regime that are in fact affiliated with al qaeda in iraq we have designated them, al-nosra, as a terrorist organization and we are going to make clear to distinguish between those elements of the opposition . megyn: the president had moments before that, he had designated syria s main opposition group as the sole legitimate representative of its country s people. lt. colonel nell ralph peters is fox news strategic analyst and author of the book, cain at gettysburg. good to have you back. your thoughts on the president s announcement and why now? i think he did the right thing but did it 15, 16 months too late. the president is recognizing the syrian coalition for two reasons the superficial reason the syrians have
colonel ralph peters will be here to section plain what it means for the u.s. as the condition in syria deteriorates. hi, i m ensure clear. clear, huh? i m not juice or fancy water. i ve gotine grams of protein. that s three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach.
the increasing civilian cost. it seems we hear of something worse happening. just today the possibility of a massacre in a village would be seen as a village that was loyal to president bashar al-asaad s re gleem syria. a number of bashar al-asaad s regime in syria. we can t figure out if people were killed by the rebels to make it look like the government did it or the government did the and the rebels are reporting on it. but the deaths of women and children is increasing every day. megyn: new concerns that al qaeda loyalists are gang the upper hand in the fight to take control of syria. colonel ralph peters will explain the high stakes battle. who wins and what america can lose. why did president obama choose