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The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens discusses the future of Syria and why the U.S. should have intervened.
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Another big topic today because -- haven't -- this kind of talk from the Russians said before the deputy foreign minister saying that.
Beyond Bashar Asad regime in Syria is now losing the country and could lose the civil war big ally.
Of Syria the -- -- also of the NATO a Secretary General Anders Rasmussen saying that the -- regimes on the brink of collapse so but that all together and bring Bret Stephens and foreign affairs columnist at the Wall Street Journal he's here in studio.
Is this is great credibility did this do you think that -- -- on his way out.
Yeah -- you know this has been going on for nearly two years and for two years people have been saying -- is on his way out.
Well this could this could end soon.
He could be on his way out but don't expect the civil war to be ended.
If there's a victory by the insurgents they're going to be mass reprisals against the Al white minority that -- has represented.
I think there's a risk of genocide the -- stories very far from over.
OK so the odds of him being out may have gone up here but the odds of -- ending.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Now you have hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon in Turkey.
In Jordan the Jordanian kingdom has become much -- civil longstanding ally.
Of the -- -- there's this big question of chemical weapons right bidder may or may not be on the loose just today -- the last couple days -- destroyed the surgeons using scud missiles against their own people al-Qaeda has been hugely energized.
By the Syrian uprising they've now come to the forefront of of that leadership so when you don't do don't do things bad.
Things can harassing your views that we waited too long so then now what is it she laid and now what do we -- over how to be handled whats in you -- and now in the concern is obviously going to be the chemical weapons and people understand that.
But -- we have this previous history that I think it's a lot of Americans heads of what happened in Iraq when there were -- I know it's a different situation.
What's in people's heads and that's what their friends references in the immediate term and they say.
How do we want to get involved another Middle Eastern war where weapons of mass destruction or an issue that's people.
-- right except that we know very well that the Syrians do have chemical weapons that have some of the largest stockpiles anywhere in the Middle East.
You may have -- -- elements coming to the four.
In Syria if the Asad regime happens to fall.
-- chemical weapons are not a thing that you know what is in the interest of the united -- -- since you've heard President Obama of talking about this very explicitly.
I don't think this is a question of -- intelligence okay -- and -- here in a minute but you think US military involvement what would you put the odds of that.
-- -- I think involvement is very -- however the US military -- do one good thing which -- to impose a no fly zone at least over parts of western serious -- would hasten the demise of of of the regime would give us much more credibility with the best elements of the leadership.
-- wants al-Qaeda okay Bret thanks for the analysis appreciate it -- -- Bret Stephens.
