son back to 1959. sergei is now a senior fellow at brown university s watson institute for international studies. professor, thank you for joining us. i guess the first question is, what are russia s interests in syria? stability. russia don t want to have all this fighting on their borders. feared about the returning taliban and afghanistan and to have the city near the caucuses, nightmare for russia. they need stability and predictability and they think that the president assad has given the stability and all this his creating uncertainty because nobody know who are they and who will be in power will they win. do you think, professor, that the united states and the west now have faces a common enemy alongside russia of islamism. the danger of the chech any ans
the peace corps that he uses in his work today? you re back here with us. the best thing i ever did in the peace corps was join it. the second thing riding in a suzuki 120 motorcycle in the middle of nowhere speaking zulu with people i know nothing like. i was the first white guy they had seen. i was teaching business in small trading shops by myself out there. once you ve done that, it s not like the military, i m not saying that. it was a growing up experience, a great thing. i hope i helped that country. finally, from mike gallagher. everybody is irish tonight. will history see the syria event for positive? i think things changed when he realized, the president that his own democratic party and his loyalists did not support him going into military action in syria. that s what changed everything. oddly enough, the secretary of state said maybe if they get rid of their chemical weapons we won t have to do this. the russians saw that they were quick witted enough to see the opportu
and the danger of the people in al qaeda? do we see the same enemy across the frontier? i wouldn t say the enemy to west or to russia. but russia live with islam peacefully for last 400 years. and they had no problems. but, of course, all the extremists are very dangerous there and starting fighting there, especially when you have this fighting to fight in between different religious groups, islamists from one side and other side also they re fighting against armenians and against christians, it s becoming very different because there you just concentrated the strong limited way of people who know nothing but we want to kill you. this is difficult. a lot of americans don t put things together quickly because we re not helped by the media.
the president has to be as quick with it and exploit the russian involvement in this thing. i think it s smart that we said we re not going to set as a rule, we go to the security council in new york and say we re not threatening them. don t threaten until we have a partner and that partner has to be russia. up next, your business with jj ramberg. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could ve had a v8. in the juice aisle. you raise her spirits. we tackled your shoulder pain. you make him rookie of the year. we took care of your cold symptoms. you take him on an adventure. tylenol® has been the number 1 doctor recommended brand of pain reliever for over 20 years. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®.
that the u.n. resolution will not include the use of military force or the threat of military force against syria as a consequence for noncompliance. politics makes strange bedfellows but as cold war history has shown, our history with russia is it would be an overstatement to call it a friend. it s no overstatement to say that president obama and his team need to deliver on this one in syria which won t be an easy task considering russia s temperament. as winston churchill famously said. i cannot forecast enigma but perhaps there is a key, that key is russian national interest. now that we re playing the game on their turf, it s worth asking. what makes putin s russia tick? simon marks, and sergei crews chief, the son of the leader of the soviet union. this is a picture of father and