celebrities, dating or trying out for the same cheerleading squad. in the case of the meeting with russia, you didn t have to just go to the body language and what they re calling each other. there s something really important and really unsubtle and concrete to watch about what was going on here. syria is the big domino in the whole arab spring that nobody knows whether or not it s going to fall yet, right? it s been 16 months of internal war fair in syria with the strong dictator in charge using military force against his own people rising up against him. syria has almost no friends in the whole world who are left still supporting the strong man dictatorship there as had uses force against its own people. it has iran, which is an international rogue state and has no friends of its own, no credibility, and no pull on other countries. they have chiny which refused to take a stand on anyone else s human rights or violence for fear of anyone taking a stands on theirs. and they also have
he said about foreign policy, the few positions he has articulated, he s going for the i m going to be as hawkish as possible. he s trying to duck the syria questions. you have mccain being more proactive there. but what he said about iran, romney basically saying i want the military option on the table, i don t want anybody holding me back. my israel policy is go to be the opposite of obamas. so the theme is from romney is to strike a hawkish note, and i think what he s trying to go for is this caricature of obama that emerged, jimmy carter ii, the mockery of the international stage. the country is going to be ridiculed. that s the image they wanted to believe in from the beginning. that s the image mccain is promoting, the image romney is promoting. and you talk about the visual impact of this. look at where obama is right now. is anybody laughing at him there? you can take that and contrast
amendment to the constitution, that is the radicalism. we should never amend the first amendment to the united states constitution. martha: always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you. we ll see you soon stphaofplt . bill: we are getting word that there will not be a ruling from the u.s. supreme court on the healthcare law. it s coming. no matter what the outcome they say healthcare will never be the same. new fears of all out civil war in syria. will the rest of the world step in to stop the massacre? wwe are concerned about the latest information that we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.
appears to show 10 children surrounded by their grieving families. all this happens as we meet with individual mir putin. peter brooks is a former cia officer and former deputy secretary of defense. gentlemen, what happened was hillary clinton accused russia of providing choppers to syria. russia said no, we haven t. she came out and said, look, if they are not brand-new helicopters, they are refurbished helicopters that were returned to russia and are being returned by russia to syria. does it even matter. the choppers do appear to be going from russia to syria and assad is massacring his own people. you tell me whether this is a distinction without a difference and whether the u.s. has a right to complain to russia.
numerous countries want to see happen. it s unclear how it can be resolved anytime soon to save lives on the ground. megyn: do we have any clout with russia? we had the so-called reset. we gave in on certain matters that they were upset about including missile defense. that was supposed to help with us the goodwill. do we have some clout and do you think we are likely to use it to affect what s happening in syria? i don t think we have any clout. i think it s evidence what you see around the world, whether you are talking about iran, syria or venezuela. i don t think we do at all. russia has more leverage over us because of our failed policies with pakistan. we have to go through russia to supply our brave troops in afghanistan. putin is a very tough character. it will be interesting to see what happens next week in moscow