wouldn t that have shown we were hitting isis and they weren t? none that have will do any good. isis can survive these airstrikes. somebody has to go on the ground and fight the bastards on the ground and nobody including the arabs want to do it. pat, i want to come back to you on what the solution really is because whether it s president obama or the can gets kicked down the road for a while, the next person has to dealing with this, too. we re going to have to deal with something in syria. is this like in afghanistan where the russians leave and we go in after. what s the future? let me say that i don t think syria is a place we re going to be doing very well with arabs on the ground who are willing to fight. but, you know, the russians are there. they ve got them. they re going to save their client. they re going to help him preserve. we are being out flanked as doug suggested and john. the ultimate insult, can you imagine a russian three star
wouldn t that have shown we were hitting isis and they weren t? none that have will do any good. isis can survive these airstrikes. somebody has to go on the ground and fight the bastards on the ground and nobody including the arabs want to do it. pat, i want to come back to you on what the solution really is because whether it s president obama or the can gets kicked down the road for a while, the next person has to dealing with this, too. we re going to have to deal with something in syria. is this like in afghanistan where the russians leave and we go in after. what s the future? let me say that i don t think syria is a place we re going to be doing very well with arabs on the ground who are willing to fight. but, you know, the russians are there. they ve got them. they re going to save their client. they re going to help him preserve. we are being out flanked as doug suggested and john. the ultimate insult, can you imagine a russian three star
weekend and doesn t really add or detract from that one way or another. i think the underlying agreement is flawed. i don t think syria will declare or destroy all of the chemical weapons, some of them. but the rest i think have been hidden or moved out of the country. think i the real victory is with assad and the russians, it give it is assad regime time to strengthen its position. so i don t think the security council resolution really adds or detracts from that original analysis. tell me if i m wrong but since it has no punitive or military enforcement, they have do go back for action, we d have to go back and get sort of an agreement or not and i assume the president didn t seem like he was too patient with the u.n. is that he would go it alone without the u.n. and then am i wrong that that would create some sort of issue?
weekend and doesn t really add or detract from that one way or another. i think the underlying agreement is flawed. i don t think syria will declare or destroy all of the chemical weapons, some of them. but the rest i think have been hidden or moved out of the country. think i the real victory is with assad and the russians, it give it is assad regime time to strengthen its position. so i don t think the security council resolution really adds or detracts from that original analysis. tell me if i m wrong but since it has no punitive or military enforcement, they have do go back for action, we d have to go back and get sort of an agreement or not and i assume the president didn t seem like he was too patient with the u.n. is that he would go it alone without the u.n. and then am i wrong that that would create some sort of issue?
think there s a rush to do it in the next week, that we can take our time, try to build allies, wait for the u.n. inspectors to come back with proof that it was actually the assad regime which used it, which i m pretty sure that it was, but we don t have to rush into this. and i think part of the president coming to congress shows that there wasn t a need to rush and that he s trying to think it through. so, the unfortunate part about this, chris, is that this is all going to boil down to trust, whether the people out there who oppose it trust their congressperson to make the right decision, whether we trust that the president has all the facts, has all the plans, and that he only intends to do limited strikes and get us out of there. all of it s a question of trust and part of it s a question of just how it will play out and what syria does. now, the other thing that i m probably confident in is the fact that i don t think syria has the capacity to respond to anything that we did, but