this is an opportunity to get rid of a satellite country of iran as iran is becoming more menacing. opportunity to get rid of a back actor in the region. and candidly we can t replace him with anything worse than what they have. that is some of the, you look at gaddafi. gaddafi was pretty neutered. assad has been a very active advocate for iran and a tool for them. we should do what we can to overthrow them. greta: if you have a chance go to mackinaw island. only 300 votes in the most, but most beautiful part of michigan. beautiful. greta: it is. it doesn t have many voters in the middle of winter but boy it s a beautiful place to be. anyway, senator, thank you. hope you come back before in a short time. thank you, sir. thanks, greta. greta: now sparks are flying on capitol hill today. it got so hot three members of
exploit the weakness and others tried to mediate as well, and i am worried the next two weeks of increased nato and opposition military activity don t cause qaddafi to crumble, that he will then use the succeeding months of ramadan in the muslim calendar to secure his position, and gain a favorable political disposition. eric: it s not just qaddafi who s digging in, but assad, had a crack down, in syria, arresting 500 people and he is still hanging in. there is no mistake the assad regime is extremely unpopular in syria, but there is one problem, they don t have free and fair elections there. and two problems, iran which has for the past several years effectively treated syria as a satellite country, has huge interest in keeping the assad regime in power. and while there has been speculation about a way to oust the assad regime i think iran is
military activity don t cause qaddafi to crumble, that he will then use the succeeding months of ramadan in the muslim calendar to secure his position, and gain a favorable political disposition. eric: it s not just qaddafi who s digging in, but assad, had a crack down, in syria, arresting 500 people and he is still hanging in. there is no mistake the assad regime is extremely unpopular in syria, but there is one problem, they don t have free and fair elections there. and two problems, iran which has for the past several years effectively treated syria as a satellite country, has huge interest in keeping the assad regime in power. and while there has been speculation about a way to oust the assad regime i think iran is prepared to go very, very far and shed a lot of syrian blood to keep the baath party rulers where they are, to protect