what's going on there and and i think we all agree whatever your political stripe is that there is the civil war is truly truly dreadful but the u.s. and its allies constantly criticize and point out atrocities committed by the assad regime but they're very tepid in criticizing opposition groups and particularly groups that most people believe are linked to al qaeda or groups like al qaeda you know does this create the kind of atmosphere of compromise and diplomacy that's necessary i guess what i'm saying in putting question the role of the united states here is that a fair broker. no no of course not there they are openly declared they want to stop to go drinking opposition group or groups no they're not being a fair broker the united states absolutely not i think when kerry went to the opening session of this conference among tro he again stood up and call for assad to go i mean i don't see where that helped any we really know the u.s. position why gratuitously stirred the thing up the united states is certainly one

sided on this there's two sides to this war and the major outside powers are your own in saudi arabia i should introduce that right now without those two sides deciding to make some kind of accommodation only in iran but across the entire region i'm going lebanon back rain to afghanistan and yemen these two sides have their hands in local conflict particularly in syria and until the iranians in the saudis can come to some accommodation this war is not going to and unless the two parties are finally realized the neither side is going to win and we're long way from that and i don't think that taking sides and there are sides being drawn up russia of course is also on the side of the of the syrian government and the categories and other gulf powers are helping the rebels so the this is a proxy war this is an international war being fought out in syria a very awful war and i don't see any any solution to this until those outside powers come together and by the way that first day of the conference is truly symbolic there was a big thing about whether iran was invited and i guess they were and then they were disinvited it was only a one day speech symbolic when they got in the room nothing happened nothing's

really happened it dantley it let's get we just heard about iran and saudi arabia let's put that for a side just for a second here but this demand that assad must go that secretary kerry repeated in the first day oh and every day is this really helpful i mean should we alleviate the civil war first and then try to end it and then worry about what's happening next because this is not how helping the people on the ground the millions of refugees and just some of the horrific things that you can find on you tube and facebook i mean it's first things first why don't we try to get the humanitarian aid things like that instead of talking constantly about assad's future. but i think the u.s. has come a long way in terms of its position about of if the u.s. has demanded the assad must step down or must leave must depart right now the u.s. is accommodating the situation in which he is actually

a player in the geneva conference very much. there and not going anywhere and i think the u.s. administration is realizing that you know you could offer his departure you can say you can call or demand him to leave but recognizing the reality on the ground is that he's very much there and he may be staying and i'm not sure everybody here in washington would want at the end of the day to see you know i know for israel for a fact that people are those who are unease with the situation because on one hand if the outcome would be that assad stays you would have them aligned with iran the radical access to feed the leaves and you're left with the. groups that are would be controlling syria and that's a good news either so i think that the u.s. has come a long way i think the u.s. as the leader of the western world must demand to depart on the other and i think that realizing that there are constraints on the ground that may have to make him

state ok will do the job i think it's this is really kind of interesting because the man has to go but we're going to talk to you first i mean this is ludicrous here and i think this is what undermines the position for many reasons and other reasons the u.s. position in all of this because you know how can you did you know it's like going to a being a monitor at a lunch table and saying when you're finished with your lunch you have to leave i mean it really is kind of childish and for allies in the region and other powers that are not allied with the united states and its western powers the united states looks a bit ludicrous in its whole procedural approach to all of this. well look russia was in mourning for more than two years and i wrote about it two years ago the fall of assad will mean a takeover perhaps by very extremist groups and that they could fan out not only into chechnya but even into western europe and a muslim the syrian foreign minister made this point very strongly in his opening remarks at montreaux earlier at the beginning of this conference that the same

people that they're fighting are or did nine eleven the same kinds of people and of course he didn't mention crimes committed by the syrian government that was done by the opposition leader but if you take both sides you've got a pretty good picture of what's happening here crimes being committed on both sides and the united states and over seeking the overthrow of assad a could open this up to an afghanistan like situation the way they did in afghanistan the way they did maybe in libya all the secular leaders that are falling as bad as some of them as they are they're all the crimes have been a bulk work against extremism and somebody you could deal with on a certain level and they also get protected secular rights of women and among religious minorities but the united states has consistently gone against these groups and why because they had mostly the saudis want these guys out for their own regional ambitions and they're also worried about iran which is another religious backing obviously religious extremists on the other side of the sectarian divide so this is the situation we've got now absolutely impossible for the united states to to continually say that assad has to go when i was the guest in march and just

pointed out they're dealing with him now invited to this conference they're eliminating the chemical weapons now you've got to deal with the reality on the ground as you point out to the first thing should be to end this conflict and the fighting and the killing and then we'll sort out the rest if possible but that doesn't seem false ok i want to say with assad again you know why is the u.s. continued to say this because obama said it is it hubris i mean or is it because riyadh is saying this i mean who is leading here i mean this is been one of the very interesting thing i mean the qatar reserve a leading this but saudis leading this because the united states is talking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time that's not good for the at. average person living in syria at this moment peter i have to say the let's let's organize of you know has orchestrated these attacks on innocent civilians is responsible for the murder for the killing of turns of thousands of innocent syrians and we're not talking about mother the reason here no but i guess i was a little get. here if you again if you bring up the word you know maybe you can

regulate the amount of the whole food you can eat what you bring up the word moral when you break the word moral the united states is is helping these rebel groups and some of them extremely extreme again. now well not with numbers or something i mean you can you depending on when you know who you want to listen to but there's a lot of jihad is there right now work and they weren't there before so i don't think it's very fair to say who has more moral ground here i mean it's a definition of a civil war atrocities are committed on all sides and i am not and i want to make it very clear i guess enter my viewers i am not defending mr assad at all all right let's be clear about that all right go ahead you can finish up one more minute before we go to the break i just have to say that. assad here carries most of the blame i'm not saying that the opposition forces on the ground or

or you know should should be should be or. groups on the contrary so who are very dangerous and very vicious on the other hand i think the u.s. has a responsibility to. be very forceful in that messaging too and i think that russia has a very important role to play in with its influence on the broader brought him to the table repeat ronnie's or to the occasion actually at least that's one thing the russians have done here and it's a positive thing in the chemical weapons that you as well our gentlemen we're going to go to a short break. we're going to go to a short break we're going to go to short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with arkie. belief.

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please. welcome back to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the recent developments in syria. ok joe i'd like to go back to you in new york you were the first of the program to do bring up around here. how tragic is it for this so-called peace process that they were invited in disinvited and then mr kerry and his usual gaffs you know maybe they can play a role on the sidelines again to bring a child here but iran is key to ending this civil war like saudi arabia is well

this is what needs to happen here and what could have been the very beginning a very big across the board across the spectrum conference has been truncated and if i were the leadership in iran i'd say well you asked this but now maybe we won't be so helpful go ahead joe well that is. we have to see that they are going to play a major role to end this conflict as i mentioned before with the saudis i don't think those two countries can not play a big role in this day of the most directly involved in arming and backing the two groups that are fighting each other in terms of the best fighters the extremists on the sunni side by the saudis and hezbollah coming from a ban on direct from iran and paid for by iran these are the two groups that are really pulling the strings mostly and they have to come together and i don't know if they ever will now as far as the conference goes that was a one day opening conference where countries thirty countries all made speeches i mean mexico was their candidate would but the really important player is there the saudis and the iranians only the saudis were invited to symbolically it was

a very bad that you're not you don't invite the iranians to come and make a speech too but ultimately they are going to work on the sidelines like everybody else they're not in the room together we're bringing me and the negotiators from the government and the opposition so all the governments are working on the side but symbolically at the beginning it was important and it was even the ation in some way for bunky moon as well a lot of this invite him to seem like he got played badly he invited them without a get written and written getting that written statement first so but ultimately that you know that's over that that that episode what's important now is that the two sides have to realize that they cannot win this war and that they asked their backers to come together and try to end it and i don't think that's anywhere near and so i could both sides still think they could win and assad at least could hold off but i still think there's plenty of money coming in from the saudis better weapons captivities of playing a more lesser role than they were previously but they're also have their groups there and turkey don't forget turkey's role in this and in allowing arms to come through and to train extremists coming in there as the head of the opposition party

told me an interview when i was in washington and completely blames the turkish government facilitating a lot of the extremists so these this is form of there is no where near and inside but you've got to bring iran in at some point and it was a it was symbolically not a good idea but i don't think ultimately really matter whether iran came and i whether the. conference took place or not frankly ok dan i mean how can we have any kind of peace process sitting around a table when not everyone is invited a lot of the rebel groups decided not to arrive and then you still have so he arabia and it was revealed that the u.s. congress is still secretly funding arms to go to these or how can you be providing a war fueling a war on and say we're for peace how can you do that at the same time it's contradictory. look having having you run a geneva is absurd i think and i think the u.s. rightly so objected to having iran produce a it's like a kid that lights up a fire then you ask him to come and put it out can't you say the same thing about

saudi arabia so didn't you say the same about saudi arabia. so. no known definitely not saudi arabia and iran are not in the same part of my opinion i think that they are trying to do something really trying to assist some rebel groups position groups within syria to make things right to reach the. go ahead jump in europe so i had jump in joe yeah that's absurd and not it did not interested in doing of i just said they were interested in their interests just go ahead joe saudi arabia is interested in their interest syrians are interested in their interests the americans are just in there and i was interested in their interests and are now is really just doing the right thing the right thing would be to end this war right away that's not happening but don't tell me that the saudis are on the good side of this and the iranians on the bad it's silly it's a sectarian conflict now of the saudis who are allied with the us and more of israel than the iranians are clearly but you can't use that bias of your position

or. to talk about a war in which a hundred thirty thousand people are dying and where and where as you said yourself even is it would probably lose you better only be with the saudis responsible for most of the so that is iran just that sauron has got so israel you're looking at iran responsible for most people who want to assad to say there's ability. ok joe no no no we don't even know that we know one hundred thirty thousand died assad did not kill a hundred thirty thousand that's reported everywhere one hundred thirty thousand a dead it's never really been broken down by the u.n. about were killed more on the other side it's a does that both sides are shooting and killing assad has not killed one hundred thirty thousand he's trying to even his implode aside so i could go to hell no question about it so could these rebel leaders both sides ok well decide to go to the hague or dan i want to leave at what point at what point are these regional powers going to finally accept that the the level of bloodshed going on in syria is unacceptable is there

a number in your head because it just seems extraordinary to me is that western media is constantly saying about the tragedy played out in syria when there are they the neighborhood itself could sit down and probably iron this out all by themselves they don't need the americans there the americans are not a fair broker at all they speak out of both sides of the mouth but you could that would be the facilitation is a look you guys you have to sit down and stop the bloodshed in syria because the agency of syria is almost nil and this ng so-called peace process peter joe the. road to us as a responsible player here the u.s. is a world power and it has to be involved in this but let's talk about the other player here the porn player which is russia i think russia has extremely crucial role to play it has been doing so until now it has to carry on doing it continue doing it forcefully visibly all the players because russia does have hold cards well does

hold that's exactly what it's doing is and that's exactly what he has been doing shows virtually here it's only for two years to take part in the new year's job for two years and we have seen the tragedy they pushed it first and hardest much more so then all of a sudden kerry says hey. let's have the geneva really really obviously obviously they didn't get it done because it's still going on i mean they should also the u.s. and russia should sit together and see how they can solve this ok russia is equally here even more forcefully it has a role to play terms of the crisis it was. done for the two years since all right let's go to joe let's go to joe in new york go ahead joe well they have such together and they've come up with this this deal to get rid of syria's chemical weapons and that was the russian initiative and united states wisely went along with that. and they got all they got killed obama sure got killed

by the by the saudis and by netanyahu for not bombing which nobody knows the consequences would have been had us intervened you could say anything that would have ended the war mediately or would have spread the thing into a completely regional conflict which may happen anyway given as i said before the sectarian war and the civil war from the mediterranean to the euphrates river that seems to be developing engulfing lebanon syria and iraq that could stretch even this far south you know i mean yemen is a playground for saudis and iranians as well so i mean rusher and did a great job there and getting and the u.s. you have to commend him by ministration to go along with that chemical weapons deal and this is the way forward with the diplomacy and yes russia and u.s. and to play a major role and as you point out peter who is leading whom the u.s. has to put pressure on the saudis and russia has some influence on iran i don't think as much and try to get those two parties together here behind the scenes of have to be at a conference forget about invitations they've got to talk and divide the thing and

come up to some solution here now the transitional government by the way is what this whole thing was about and the meanings are not agreed to communicate number one from geneva one which talked about transitional government but nobody's ever said assad has to go out of the traditional government transitional government although the above opposition will never accept him and assad will never really want to share power. with the guys he's fighting so this is a nonstarter unfortunately geneva one and eva two ultimately has to be exhausted on a battlefield and some kind of compromise not insight right now not monitoring right now buying fighters on the ground or the powers behind them then if i go back even watching them in one of the things i find extremely ironic here is that about a half a year ago obama was a few minutes away from saying fire ok and now he wants to sit down and talk to the the regime in syria i mean that is going to be the the irony is this. endless there you're going to attack and you're going to kill in

a committed atrocity against international law and now we're saying we're going to sit down and talk to you again the legitimacy issue is this glaring. things have to disagree i think that. obama think is very pro is very pragmatic and he reached a conclusion that he could get things done without the use of force and people many people here in washington do believe that if obama would not have stepped up his rhetoric and it would have done heard give instructions to go on a military strike then perhaps the syria the assad regime would not have moved on the city on the chemical weapons front so i think that his position and his posturing did help in many ways reach a deal with the russians to allow this to to reach an agreement on the chemical weapons which is going smoothly although most of the chemical weapons cache is still on syrian soil but it is going a process which is going forward i don't think it's ironic i don't think it's i think that obama is very pragmatic and he wants to do it to grab us ahead of time

and i want to you wanted to i want to get i want to get the last word to joe last forty seconds here the saudis must think the americans are fools that's at the end of the day i mean that the south that we are just doesn't believe the americans can can drive this thing at all all at. you know with this some really complex relationship going back to second world war of course we've seen the saudis and the americans and and here we see the saudis getting very angry when they didn't bomb syria very angry over the iranian nuclear deal and i agree with the guest that that a show of force always works in diplomacy that's from the beginning of time you can really do diplomacy with out for so yes the u.s. threat helped get this chemical weapons out they got to do more of that more diplomacy and the saudis have to be told that they can have a big run amok and do what they want and the region but the iranians have to be told this too so i told the press the board on both sides from more problem countries like russia and the u.s. there's no chance of a diplomatic solution i think that the u.s. has to stand up and obama needs credit he has stood up all right here's what i

would say to his guys should know when to run out of time iran many thanks and i guess in washington and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. you next time and remember of crosstalk. there is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them. this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the fear of french. women definitely the target of

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