moments to talk about father s day and the changing face of the american family as well. we ll be back with you in a few minutes. president obama s decision to arm syrian rebels, the other big story on this sunday, sparking a great deal of controversy. some lawmakers are questioning the strategy. they want the united states to do even more to help the rebels topple the regime of syrian president of bashar al assad. the president s decision to arm the rebels comes on the heels of key victories by the forces of syria s president, bashar al assad. a columnist writing in part, over the last several months vast military assistance from iran and hezbollah has accelerated the killing and shifd the military balance in assad s favor. how does the introduction of foreign forces change the nature of the conflict, or does it change it in any way, shape or form at all? well, you have troops of hezbollah, people that are very
the war. because this war will continue whether assad will live or not live. this war will outlive him and carry on. as i said before, it s about power. so we need to push both sides, we need to negotiate with russians and chinese, and force them to put the syrians on the table, with a free syrian army, and find a way to share power like lebanon, where the prime minister is always suni, the president is always christian, and the president of the parliament is shiite. that is the only way out. because there s no alternatives. but what we are doing, and the hard-core part of our foreign policy is becoming mill tarrized. so we deploy everything and we left everything, only to a military option. and that in the end won t work. it didn t work in afghanistan, it did not work in iraq, and it will not work in syria. we need to understand that we need to get everybody at the table and give them something.
show of force. either he just wanted to make a mockery of the prime minister or he is off on his own. we don t know what happened in those discussions. one thing is very, very clear to me. prime minister netanyahu is very, very clear on defending israel. and neil: he has to feel like he was hosed here. i don t know. neil: how would you feel? i nope what was in the meeting. i m sure neil: not to arm syria. even if they arm syria, if they mean anything against israel, they are harming syria, because we re going to make sure that they re not going to use those weaponry, and if they god forbid use any kind of weaponry against israel, god forbid, we ll make sure neil: the president already said there would be consequences. the line in the sand. his critics said now know and you re drawing another line.
yourself, don t play around with us. we re very working very hard on the economy, seeking friends, seeking relationship with moderates, but it s very interesting observation. you see all the players in the world working well with israel are doing well. the ones that are perceiving them themselves as enemies of israeling the harsher they are, the worse they re doing, the syrian regime, iraq, iran, all very busy with themselves and their economy is not right. neil: i m looking at russia beefing up its prepares in sir its presence in sirarch providing weapons to syria, ships off syria, that raises, what would they do if we were to intervene or go after chemical weapon stockpiles that might be in syria? does russia just sit idly by?
you going to do this? and i gave a, you can defeat assad tank and helicopters by supplying arms to this group of rebels. that s not realistic. if you re going to talk about leadership and america s leadership in the world, you have to admit that syria s defenses are far superior to any of the countries that we ve seen toppled so easily, such as libya, for instance. so you can t just assert leadership by saying, i m going to be your leader. you have to say what you re going to do and how it s going to be different from the leader that you are criticizing. that s what we didn t see from syria or today in what he said about iran either because he talks tough on iran, not clear how anything, anything he s proposed would be anything different. and he does this, brian, facing a president who has a strong record on foreign policy. let me show you what the president has been saying. four years ago i told you i would end the war in iraq and we