Form the opinion of the european union as a recommendation to the council. it will be not as usual a matters of years to form this opinion but i think a matter of weeks. okay. to explain what mika was explaining, nato membership is a defensive organization despite the paranoia of vladimir putin. the eu, that s a question of whether you will be a country that leans towards russia and has a more totalitarian type regime now, of course, especially after the last month, or whether you are leaning towards europe, whether you are free, whether you are democratic. actually, eu membership for the whole of the country even more significant than nato membership, even though we talk about nato a lot because it is a defensive alliance and we are in a war. speaking of war let s go to the big board. you saw clint there. we wanted to give you a tease of clint there to stay with us through my rambling.
A president has to lead. americans will not be happy to go to war but they will support a president who makes a case for military intervention. again, it doesn t mean that american troops will be in syria. it just means that the u.s. will get in the game. really the only kind of game changer would be to military on the ground in syria is to ground assad s planes. paul: what the end game for you if we do that? what do you want to see? what should the u.s. push for? we want to topple the assad regime. paul: then what? then what happens in sear why with the rel rebels. islamists that are rising in the movement and more mainstream opposition. bottom line, no arab country has willingly supported an al-qaeda type regime. our responsibility is not to ensure on democratic