syria. they have not been arming the rebels. and now we are. and we presumably will take part in some multilateral effort to do that with a lot of european partners. what difference does it make that we re doing it? why couldn t the people who were so much more sure about this before we were do this on their own without us? well, certainly the arab leaders have saudis and qatar, they ve been arming them. we have the situation where the refugee crisis in turkey and particularly in jordan is really becoming critical. jordan cannot withstand the continual flow of refugees. but i think the big difference is iran. now that iran is so fully engaged, they were always arming and, by the way, maliki in iraq, he s letting those arms go through, so we have not been able to persuade iraq and the government that we helped put in place to stop the flow of arms through its territory and over its territory, ground and air into syria.
and we presumably will take part in some multilateral effort to do that with a lot of european partners. what difference does it make that we re doing it? why couldn t the people who were so much more sure about this before we were do this on their own without us? well, certainly the arab leaders have been, the saudis and qatar, they ve been arming them. we have the situation where the refugee crisis in turkey and particularly in jordan is really becoming critical. jordan cannot withstand the continual flow of refugees. but i think the big difference is iran. now that iran is so fully engaged, they were always arming and, by the way, maliki in iraq, he s letting those arms go through, so we have not been able to persuade iraq and the government that we helped put in place to stop the flow of arms through its territory and over its territory, ground and air into syria. but i think the fact was that
you can do that by cratering runways and moving the patriot missile batteries. this bologna about how we have to send aircraft. we don t. the israelis just showed that they can attack targets that they want in near damascus which need to be targeted. steve: speak willing of the israelis, it s a real threat to them. it s spilled into lebanon, we re fight not guilty lebanon. jordan cannot blast. the king of jordan cannot last under this present scenario. 10% of their population are refugees. can you imagine 10% of our population? brian: you have spent quality time with the president over the last ten days. you could call him up and you could say listen, i got to tell but the rebels. two-thirds we can trust. a third we can t and i ll tell where you to go with them. what happens when you said it? they crossed a red line and used chemical weapons. you see it s a direct line to the oval office. what do you think? i think i have raised the issue with the president. brian: what does