kashs, most who look at what s happening there and look at it realistically, think it s going to be a ten-year global hemorrhage of horror and death and ongoing civil war, so that s the downside. it really there are not a lot of options if that s the realistic solution. it s practically like genocide in some levels. but the tools to go in and do something are very limited unless you want to go to war against assad directly. and i know that the president is not suggesting that. and by the way, the chemical weapons component to all of this, it appears as if syrian regime now also dragging its feet on that. what more can you tell us about the delays there? well, i think that s more serious because russia is directly on the line with that. this would hamper russia s credibility on a lot of other fronts. remember, russia has a lot of other objectives in the world than protecting syria. so to a certain degree they are trying to highlight that again and basically tell russia, you