there s all these caveats they need to be absolutely sure that they need proof, they need to make sure it was the assad regime and not some rogue assad militia or whatever it is. it appears that red line, according to jay carney, was an intentional marker. what to do, it s unclear. certainly, the waters are being muddied day by day and there s a massive, furious argument going on in the united states now about pro and con, should there be an intervention. i spoke to the first prime minister of the syrian exile groups, and he is basically said that, look, again, we don t want any boots on the ground, but you guys have to consider and calculate whether you want to shore us up the moderates or whether we want to just see the weapons keep going to the jihadis and this and that. so, once again, they are calling for certain things that have been floated that could possibly happen. give the opposition antitank