are being killed and the u.n. is ineffective. what is the next step? military enter have by the united states? guest: that is the problem. this is no next step. today we had the first hadn t that, perhaps, the united states might contemplate intervention but most of us who have watched the situation think that is really not much of an option. this is the last thing president obama wants just before an election. i visited the syrian army that is the opposition army on the turkish border and it is turkey that is calling the shots down there not the syrians and the civilian opposition, trace, is an absolute mess. they are at one another s throats, disorganized, they do not respond in any way to the free syrian army or vice versa, so it is not clear there is a plausible political alternate to as sad which is also part of the problem. trace: so if as sad goes