and can be doing, and i don t believe the president is being served well by basically making the argument that further militarization, as the press secretary just said, is not feasible. we could be doing more such as delineating this regime, helping the turks in the arab league, and number three, putting in a security council resolution on the table, basically trying to stop the russians from providing more military assistance to syria, which is, in effect, fuelling all this. it s disgrace ful that the united states is still supporting a peace plan by kobean, and russia is supplying arms to fuel this resistance to syria. we should be calling the russians out and not supporting a non-plan, which since the cease fire in april 10, has largely failed. tony, what do you make of what ambassador ginsberg says? obviously, not a lot of good options here. he s making a case for at least
obviously the administration is juggling a lot of priorities in the region. many have called for a more forceful arming the rebels. that should be looked at. clearly the long non-plan is suffering and 300 observers in syria is not going alter the landscape. the intelligence service are very much in control of the country unlike libya where i had a geographic split. the white house created the atrocities prevention board which aims to stop genocide. here is what the conservative weekly standard wrote. boards and committees do not stop men with guns determined to slaughter. this should be obama to an administration that there should be some purpose to the monitors