I spoke to him right before he went into that meeting. this is what he said he needs to know. watch. primarily is this, if we conduct these strikes, this military exercise, what effect will it have, and, once we conduct the exercise, what s the blow back, what are the repercussions and have we planned for it at all? president obama very early on basically set a policy for this nation that assad must go. what has he done to have that occur and, what have we done to plan the replacement? and from my standpoint, bill, the biggest national security problem, the biggest national security interests of america in syria is those chemical weapons stockpiles falling into the hand of elements of al qaeda or possibly the muslim brotherhood. what are we going to do to prevent that? i haven t heard any, any response in terms of those to those questions. bill: he had a whole lot to say in the interview. you can imagine he is not alone in the briefing right now asking
Chemical weapons and stockpiles. what s the question? i don t think the solution lies in syria, i felt this for two and a half years, the issue is not syria. the issue is iran and it s nuclear weapons program. we go into iran and end that program, and you think that syria s going to fall like a house of cards? i think if the ayatollahs in tehran were not supporting the assad regime he would have collapsed two years ago. the threat to peace and security in the region is iran s support for international terrorism, financing it, arming it, equipping it, and their nuclear weapons program. syria is a tragedy, but is a strategic side show. where is iran getting the money. i realize we have waivers, where are they getting the money to finance assad and to finance terrorism at this point? they have built up reserves over the years, recognizing that sanctions may hit them at some point, when oil prices were high, they weren t spending all that money, they were banking it, they re pr
Middle east, in terms of the proxy war that s being set up between the united states and russia, while the united states still very firmly supports israel. they will defend israel. president assad also enjoys the support of moscow and the russians, interestingly the first note we got of that missile test today, by the israelis was from russian air defense radar that was set up inside syria, the very same early warning system will be used to detect a u.s. attack if and when it comes, greta. what is the israeli government saying, spokesperson saying or people and authorities saying about what s going on back here in the united states. the president seems ready to go forward. and then decide he would go to congress. what s the reaction there? on the record, they won t say much of anything, in terms of what they think of the use delay. off the record, israeli government officials were tossing around the world like power to describe president obama s actions, saying, this
Chemical weapons and stockpiles. what s the question? i don t think the solution lies in syria, i felt this for two and a half years, the issue is not syria. the issue is iran and it s nuclear weapons program. we go into iran and end that program, and you think that syria s going to fall like a house of cards? i think if the ayatollahs in tehran were not supporting the assad regime he would have collapsed two years ago. the threat to peace and security in the region is iran s support for international terrorism, financing it, arming it, equipping it, and their nuclear weapons program. syria is a tragedy, but is a strategic side show. where is iran getting the money. i realize we have waivers, where are they getting the money to finance assad and to finance terrorism at this point? they have built up reserves over the years, recognizing that sanctions may hit them at some point, when oil prices were high, they weren t spending all that money, they were banking it, they re pr
United states i can t avoid those questions because as much as we are criticized, when bad stuff happens around the world, the first question is, what is the united states going to do about it. that s true on every issue. it s true in libya, it s true in rwanda, it s true in sierra leone. it s now true in syria. i think we have great opportunities i think there is a good chance for fred trick to talk about our shared views here. because we have i think a joint belief that developed countries have to make progress, but we have to have an international framework to address where the increases in emissions are now