neither of those things has happened. so, now, we are on the course to a more horrible war. shepard: the bubble, now, the bubbling is whether he will use chemical weapons. but the bigger question could be, whether the troops would actually use them if he orders them deployed. guest: the regime if the army decides it will not carry out orders from the commander in chief. since it is an army that is led by the minority that rule the country, but is still 70 percent sunni, there are only a certain number of troops who are deemed reliable, and therefore the troops are spread very, very thin in the areas that need to be protected because they are not, for example, in the golan heights and the israelis claim that jihads are sneaking in posing a threat to israel. so israel, which is not terribly worried of the use of chemical weapons against its own people,