america s hands-off approach to the middle east. as new evidence of chemical weapons used in syria surfaces and egypt moves closer to civil war. we a great to have you here. welcome back to the program. thank you for having me. good. let s look at syria first. a year ago, i think it was the president famously, president obama, fame famously said use of chemical weapons would be a red line that syria shouldn t cross and would have consequences. what is assad s calculation that he would cross, be willing to cross that red line? small-scale attacks and nothing happened. what happened recently was the sixth attack and each attack has been bigger than the previous one with the exception of one in the middle. so he has been testing both
abroad about america s hands-off approach to the middle east. egypt moves closer to civil war. a syndicated columnist and author of 11 books on the middle east joins me now from london. welcome back to the program. great to have you here. thank you. . good, let s look at syria. first, a year ago, i think it was, president obama famously said their use of chemical weapons would be a red line that syria shouldn t cross and would have consequences. what is bashar assad s consequences that he s willing to cross that line? what happened recently was the sixth attack and now a pattern is emerging, each attack has been bigger than the previous one. so he has been testing both the