today, there s very good investigative reporting in russia, though would you think putin had cracked down on the entire press. but there s a publication that a reporter worked for allegly killed bychechens. their work continues on and they re reporting today that tamerlan tsarnaev, when he was in dagestan, met with two muslim extremists, one-half palestinian, the other a canadian-russian boxer and there s enormous work going on in the northern caucasus right now by russian journalist which is we would benefit from studying. josh, it is difficult, there are a lot of moving pieces here. i want to focus on the needle in a haystack. jonathan turley writes in an editorial u.s.a. today. two brothers made bombs with common pressure cookers. they placed devices in one of the most surveilled areas of boston with an abundance of police presence and walked away. no one is seriously questioning the value of having increased
at the end of the day this is a humanitarian crisis. yes, it is. and there are comparisons to genocides in rwanda, and sudan. there s a question of whether president obama as jeffrey goldberg said, as a moral man cannot do anything about this crisis and maintain his sense of morality. well richard has seen this closehand, and 70,000 killed, millions displaced. but i don t think there are any good military options, i think we need to double down on the humanitarian crisis and find ways to deal with that. it s not, there s a great diplomat named lochtar brahimi, from the united nations. who was there for iraq and let s not forget about iraq and afghanistan, when we talk about syria. our involvement in those countries has not necessarily benefitted the civilians in those countries, i think you need a political negotiated settlement that may sound far-fetched, but we are talking