really offsets
Assad's human rights a record is in no way in question
are so it's it but it's its interesting to watch the PR
up push are and and reflect on what side is saying we have some sound
him from Charlie Rose that after that I'm gonna read a follow-up ordered
another thing he said in the interview but I think we'll start with the
the sound are here is talking with Charlie Rose
there is an intense discussion going on about all the things we're talking about
yeah in washington where there's a strike by just because it I
side was educated I as medical doctor in London South East he speaks English so
that's him speaking there is a translator
Sarika I'm the United States decision to do this
what do you want to say it's very important
week Mr America from and in washington to the american people
to members of congress up to the President of the United States
I think the most important
auto the snow is through the American people but the
reports show that looked like a Latino don't the
want war anywhere up on me again said but
the congress going to vote love
few days and I think the congress is elected by the people and for them to
people
and look for them to us with this question the pic us win tho
what the walls give america things it not enough
popping no political gain no
economy game no good reputation you know if if you thought
ordinal time could do to 10
all time to the
thought before it is against the interests will be nice if
one for full codicil the war going to support
al Qaeda and the same people that kill
Americans in the 11th sale Sept
the second thing that we'll walk through for the
congress that they should from that what we expect respect and trust me
administration about the evidence the half
regarding became a cult story delegations
the presented I think it's a fascinating clip for a couple have different reasons
and and some extremely disturbing ones on
one its again of the top
aside is equating a lot of things here that should not be
acquitted on a lot of the rebels and opposition
I forces working against the sod are certainly not
al Qaeda and what started in in Syria
as a genuine democratic uprising due to the horrible
politics the regime as well as to other factors like economic climate change
factors that Sam
I has highlighted has turned into this broad
divers are a multi-faceted thing which
really essentially with all the factions fighting is both a civil war within
Syria
and also a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
rush obviously as a significant stake their the Gulf states besides Saudi
Arabia do in the United States apparently thinks it does
as well what's disturbing to me is that Wiles
side is really cynically using this argument on
and again I think cannot be emphasized enough how much of a butcher he is
the reality is that over the past couple years
I as this conflict has in the past the size
al Qaeda is a presence in Syria their
is real presents are those fighters particularly in the north the country
number three you know we talk about blowback
we talk about credibility we talk about you know preserving American status in
the world
I think that there's no better indictment American status
when a third-rate you know trust fund baby
dictator who is brutally savaging his country to protect
I himself and his you know small networks
can go out on Charlie Rose and give a pretty accurate diagnosis of the
problems in American foreign policy and how low we slip the world
that's the problem the problem is
is why is this critique so easy to make even if it's being made cynically
bite-sized
and going into Syria with no plan and no strategy in rejecting
are the possibility that russia may be facilitating
we some type of progress with the chemical weapons
is is not help for the very least so I think those are some takeaways from the
interview the last thing
a quote from the side which is pretty disturbing
armed rose push their mind what his government forces have done it again
this is
really important to highlight because these these things began
before this conflict was heavily militarized this was a Don violent
uprising
sized through tremendous brutality back at it
and and rose pushed him on the brutality this regime
an aside disputed the description of him as an aggressive
ok as an aggressor and likened himself to a doctor saving a patient
he said quote a doctor cuts the leg to prevent a patient from gangrene
if you have to we don't call the butcher we call the doctor and we thank you for
saving lives
when you have terrorism and you have war when you have a war
you always have enough supplies that could be victims have any war
and I think that that saddam
you know it's revealing obviously oversize mentality I
and at his his previous our medical training but I is not much that I just
thought that quote was chilling
are but I think that the context around what's happening here is such that
for rejecting diplomatic possibilities
on the chemical weapons front at someone like Assad
who consistently go out on US television and make a case
that sounds reasonable that's the underlying crisis in American foreign
policy it needs to be addressed immediately
and launching unilateral strike without much strategy behind it
on seems to me to be
really foolish text