states has shown itself a very inconstant ally, mostly like people like mu bbaracmubarack, russians are quite loyal to their allies like with assad. it seems to me like sort of an impossibly high standard because this is all high probabilitieses, you never know what the consequences are going to be. did you look at an intervention that was successful or what criteria would you look at for a potential intervention? that s a very good question. everybody knows, all of this talk from politicians in west, our foreign secretary or your secretary of state, about the moderate rebels and we re going to help the moderate rebels. if you know anybody who has been