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your bomber administration
has recently said that they're going to start sending uh... more arms
uh... to the syrian rebels
uh... and that's in response to couple of things one is more confirmation peace
out regime is used
of chemical weapons a number to uh... broader political pressure president
clinton said last week that you know president obama's looking weak and
indecisive
uh... i i don't know
what president clinton's motivation for that interventionists
uh... and i don't really get
uh... the political or strategic
policy purpose of that but that's what he did
uh... and then three
and
uh... you know more maybe substantively the deal the
there's a peace process there's a peace summit coming up with various factions
fighting in syria
are and what has happened recently is that visited the is suddenly gene is
doing very well guy and you very good advanced weaponry from
are russia hezbollah is on the ground fighting uh... with with the aside of
forces
uh... and it's going their way
uh... so that fear is is that the opposition might seriously be decimated
in anticipation of this piece on that
are and and in which case beers much less of a chance of striking
uh... ideal that is probably the thinking are behind sending these
weapons in uh...
i think imagine there's a lot of resistance to doing this uh... you know
we've discussed on the show before there's a many different factions
fighting in syria including groups like
al-qaeda groups
uh... out there is
brutal human rights violations which started in the beginning when it was a
democratic uprising of this really horrific assad government but at this
point
uh... certainly rebel forces are engaging in serious human rights
violations themselves uh... and diet
and there's division within the g_-eight about by sending more weapons ought to
syria
in the middle east each shipped
on there are
president morse he's just cut off relations with the aside government
i knew if you kind of combine that with iran strong support for aside
how this conflict is getting more and more sectarian essentially
hezbollah iran supporting our white regime of aside their shiites
uh... and then the kind of more suny a fundamentalist forces of more see uh...
in egypt and you know governments like a tower in saudi arabia backing the rebels
the real danger is that this just turns into
more and more of
what it really is at this point which is a sectarian civil war
with a lot of horrific human rights consequences all-round
uh... and i don't really see the strategy for sending more weapons and
and i think that we've learned so many cases i mean we flooded weapons into you
know pakistan afghanistan in the eighties uh... look at what that spread
too
uh... this policy shift himself
uh... you know he he left that particularly to uh...
to police chief of staff
um...
you know there could be some case made for a purpose seems really problematic
to me
and does situations really spiralling into could get
much much worse and include many more actors in the region
sky base that's going on there