back, he sees the poll numbers moving in the opposite direction of where they need them to move, even after a full frontal assault on the public and on congress. he sees the numbers whipping by. the news organizations and probably the internal people and those numbers are not moving in the right direction. i think that you do have to try to find it out here. i don t believe, however, that you can trust putin and assad. i don t trust those guys as far as i can throw them. we ve seen putin try to poke at the president before, even with snowden, and i don t think there is any affinity. you have to be skeptical if he is serious, and then the practical matter of how do you flood syria with, you know, weapons inspectors. they have something like 70 different sites where they have these. in the middle of a civil war. how does this happen in the middle of a civil war? it is really hard to see as a practical matter how it can be done. however, i think the president