revealing americans have shield out an average of 800 bucks each more at the pumps since the start of biden s presidency. and voters are pinning blame equally on putin and the biden white house for the costs. how is this going to play out in the midterms. charlie hurt, opinion editor at washington times, fox news contributor and also very good at math. we are in trouble. gillian: i mean, we got to state the obvious off the bat, right, p utin has launched a ground war inside europe, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians. president biden is not, but talking about gas prices. set that aside for a second. biden is going to be held to task in a few months. how do you think it s going to hurt him? i think without a doubt and you don t have to be good at math to realize this. as you know, the old saying goes, al politics is local, that does not mean whatever political dispute going on down the street affects people.
diplomacy. it was interesting. he started with harsh words with several countries. assad, slaughtering tens of thousands of his own people, russia calling out the sovereignty of ukraine, with china in the south china sea and even with iran, saying iran following this deal is, in his words, using violent proxies to advance their interest. as he called them out with tough words, these are countries he s working with. he said on syria he would be willing to work with anyone, including russia and iran, to solve the problem there. he has proven he s willing to work with iran. he has this nuclear deal. in effect saying, and of course he s continuing to talk to china, despite the many differences there. so, tough words for them, citing the very real difficulties that they have and differences, but proving, in effect, his point, or at least arguing for his point by saying, i will work with them if we can find a way forward and painting that as a possible path forward in places like syria, wher
and help from countries in the world and show some sympathy. after all, it was no long ago when people of the world were showing sympathy for hungarians. paint a picture for us. remind us why these people are fleeing syria and iraq. it s been we re in year five of a brutal civil war in which the regime of bashar assad helped by countries like russia and iran has essentially been slaughtering tens of thousands of its own people. 250,000, a quarter of a million people are already dead. on top of that, you have isis, which operates from its headquarters in syria. you have millions of people caught between a rock and a hard place, to use the old cliche. millions of them are refugees.
why not the dictator in syria? why not the dictator in iran? that s the that s the larger issue. you would support that then, too? would i support and have supported a doctrine that is not situational ethics. you want the security force to get rid of bashar assad and ahmadinejad? you go in you have to go in to win and need a clear exit strategy. but they are not going into syria and iran. they are going into libya? what s the difference. you know this region better that be most of these people who are in government today. what is the difference between assad and gadhafi? what is it? syria, we could argue for our interests, we have a greater strategic interest in syria given its geography as jill just pointed out, and its interaction with al qaeda than we do in libya. the point being that if bashar assad or ahmadinejad were on the verge of doing what gadhafi was on the verge of doing in benghazi, slaughtering tens of thousands of people, would the u.s., would the obama