it would actually be. you'd need to have international inspectors all over that country in a state of civil war in order to try to secure those weapons. >> they'd have to invite people in, which heretofore, they have not done effectively. >> right. you'd have to have them go across the country, even though the country is now in a case of civil war and you'd have to assume that bashar al assad will continue to do this once the threat of military force has been lifted. can you maintain the threat of force in order to continue to get him to go down this road? most likely you would be in a situation where the threat of force dissipated. >> that's one-third of the equation. that's the syria, what will they do? then you have the russia. doesn't this remind us of something they promised in the past with iran and uranium that never happened? give us context. >> russia's primary interest is in keeping assad in power