the question is, whether the american people should pay in treasure and cost of arms, why it s their job, why the american people in iowa, in indiana, in texas and all around this country, it s their job to solve this problem. why? well, because to be frank, andrew, president obama started this two years ago in saying because you are the superpower. there s that. but also president obama said assad must step down. we re not, actually. we have a huge military. huge military that s largely useless to negotiate a deal with most of the problems that we re dealing with. please please please. go ahead, zaidune. go ahead. please just let me ask you one question. everybody now says that there is chemical weapons inside. it will take a few months or one year just to finish the process. what happens if these chemical weapons are used by regime people or somebody from the terrorist groups to attack you guys?
people could be happy with but they re not happy. and they shouldn t be happy. there is a disjungt here between the elites here all in their brains about chemical weapons, think about this, talking about this, a regular person wakes up and says we re going to war again in the middle east? we re not going to war again in the middle east. let s listen to what the president said about this. why should we get involved at all in a place that s so complicated and where, as one person wrote to me, those who come after assad may be enemies of human rights. it s true. that some of assad s opponents are extremists. but al qaeda will only draw strength in a more chaotic syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death. the majority of the syrian
i m irritated with some of these guys. i go and kill them with a knife and then i go and hand over the knife to the police station and then i go back to my previous work. yeah. now shg, tonight talk about chemical weapons. we should understand that there is an ongoing massacre in syria. i know there is. we should stop this dictator s cycle. we need to tell him, go away from this country. leave them. [ overlapping speakers ] part of your argument is that this will only let them buy time. buy time for what? what are you afraid that assad is going to do with this time? continue the war. just imagine what happens, what happens for 1 1/2 years. he will kill another 200,000. and meanwhile, meanwhile, he might just [ overlapping speakers ]
going to do in 1991. and i think we did a reasonable credible job of doing it. so i don t want to say no one can do it. it is a very, very tough job. they should not be underestimated. either as to the expense, the extent, or the time it s going to take. and quite frankly, what really worries me is the time that it s going to take to see if the syrians are really truthfully cooperating. this could be a long rope game. i think, david, don t you think that s the most difficult piece of this whether the russians and the syrians will create so many road blocks and obstacles in the negotiation? you could imagine a scenario on the ground that works. because after all, the danger is that what there s a civil war so the rebels would somehow attack the inspectors. but rebels have no interest in doing that because the inspectors are there to destroy chemical weapons that would be used against the rebels. so that piece of it strikes me as potentially doable. just getting into where the war is
because of american action the russians would be enforcing both the fact that syria has declared it has chemical weapons and that syria is actually prepared to join the chemical weapons convention, and that the russia is prepared to take the responsibility along with other members of the security council to enforce it, we would think it was a miracle. do you believe russia? do you believe yes. and here s one reason i believe russia. they have reason to be scared of those chemical weapons, too. because the one thing those rebels hate in that country is russia at this point. next on the line after if they were to gain power and some extremist elements would gain control of it, after the alawites and christians the russians would be the target of these weapons. putin gets to both take the credit and also control these weapons. and ultimately destroy them. i don t mind if it takes months or even years. at this point is assad going to use those weapons again? with russia and iran now