advanced international studies in washington a very warm welcome professor i mean this is starting to feel like a deja vu we ve seen this before massive offensive is announced u.n. warns of a bloodbath offensive goes ahead and the world moves on for the nearly three million people in this area what can the international community do because words like bloodbath they re meaningless at this stage. i think the international community can do bury little doubt it s a last gotten terror on to restrain damascus and i don t see either one is willing to sacrifice much in order to do that iran seems to be wanting the fight in include russia might prefer restraint but if the fight begins i expect them to support. the us presence donald trump has warned
marie, i understand the president has to, under the law, basically certify whether iran is complying with the agreement or not. there is mixed signals coming from the administration as to how that is going to go down. what do you think is going to happen? well,s the challenge for the administration is that within the 159 pages of the deal iran is technically in compliance. the administration doesn t like things they re doing outside of the deal. i would argue that the best way to deal with those other things like support for terrorism, ballistic missiles is to deal with them with all the other tools we have. why would you walk away from a nuclear deal that today is preventing them from going a weapon and plain to north korea here, north korea shows us that our options with countries are much more limited when they get nuclear weapons. that after they cross that threshold the options for action go way down. iran is not there yet. why would you walk away from an agreement that is not p
congress. there s no question about it. and the fact is, it is partly a matter of ideological commit kmt, but it s really more than that. they ve the republican party has become engaged in a war, a strategic war so for example, if obama embraces a republican position thinking that will pull them in, then they withdraw from that and attack it. you have a chapter on newt gingrich, rick tyler, and the role he plays. gingrich deserves a dubious kind of credit for many of the elements that have produced the current state of politics. he crystallized the approach of crafting a cohesive style minority party and using it as a battering ram to stymie and daniel a president of the other party. of course, newt gingrich author of the gop bus words bedra, anti-flag, anti-family, pathetic, lie, cheat,d of this s
people in this village have a cave connected to their house these caves were abandoned during the truce that lasted six or seven months now people are again preparing for an offensive and a stockpiling food inside so if an attack takes place we can go into the cave. fearful residents are bracing for bloodshed as the syrian government masses its troops on board as. the first strikes hit the rebel and play front tuesday syria s ally russia released footage purporting to show russian warplanes attacking what it calls terrorist targets but human rights groups say several civilians were killed. international calls amounting to avoid an all out on sloat and an insinuating humanitarian catastrophe. already like to welcome now professor daniel a server he directs the conflict management program at johns hopkins school of