withdraw it and he has an absolute right in my opinion as commander-in-chief to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement, because it s not even an agreement. it wasn t a contract both parties signed. it wasn t a treaty that congress the senate ratified. it was sort of simultaneous diplomatic promises. irgc was started out as a private military force created by the iranian revolution because it didn t trust the army and it has grown into one a massive military force with tens of thousands of troops in syria, killing syrians and yemen and iraq killing yemen and iraqis and it also essentially is the dominant force in the iranian economy so if our treasury secretary can sanction the irgc, it s going to hurt the iranians economically.
it was manifested in the form of sectarianism, sectarian militia fighting in syria, killing syrians by the thousands, ascending arms and creating a sectarian party that could break up in yemen. so saudi arabia basically wasn t happy with what the iranians are doing, and that s what happened yesterday or just the tip of a major problem that has to do with the remaking of the new middle east. both sides, ir iran and saud arabia have accusations about freedom and dictatorship. the rest of the world was hoping they could get around the table, and have some kind of political resolution. is that out the window, the effort to end the syria war, the fight against isis? where does that go from now? it is always a good idea to
a dispute with russia, especially with the current civil war going on in neighboring syria. we do not have any intention to escalate this matter. all we are caring for is a defending of security and the law and rights of our brothers. and we just heard from the president. turkey said they are defending their kin, turkmen, ethnic turks on the border. they have accused russia of bombing them, killing syrians as well, bombing them as well. they say that is their main object siv to protect them. it could backfire as this could escalate tensions with russia.
killing syrians, men, women and children, the guy is causing all kind of problems to every country on the periphery of russia. he well, he is what he is. he is an old colonel kgb, nothing more, nothing less, and machine costas giving him this kind of credit borders on the ludicrous. you re not making a general damning inindictment of people who read prompter for a living, right? not at all, and i have admired bob costas knowledge of sports and his in-department analysis from time to time. i watch his program quite often. but on this one, bob, stick to the hockey games, will you? senator john mccain, thank you very much. in the meantime, to all the 99ers, this billionaire just said folks like him in the 1% work harder.
it has been spectacularly a failure if you look at the masses of internal conflict as well as country to country conflict that have taken place since 1945. president after president have in a sense side stepped the u.n. process because it really is pretty much broken. the u.n. resolution is a good idea from the political standpoint for the obama administration. it gives them some breathing room. it add international legitimacy to what they want to do. but the reality, there has to be an or what. what assad need is an incentive to stop killing syrians. there is really almost nothing. that can be in the charter that prevents internal civil conflict. supposed to be country to country conflict. lawrence, if i may add. one thing that is important to understand. syria has the fourth largest cache of chemical weapons in the world. and the pentagon issued a report, public report by the way which we can all read. it would take 75,000 u.s. troops not saying u.s. troops would do