a series of somewhat rivaling conflicting interests it makes it extremely difficult and the real problem is here we've learned in libya that the price of military intervention is very very high end if i can just remind your viewers and listeners about the costs that we have paid in libya through a nato intervention originally entered into perhaps with some goodwill to prevent civilians from be massacred ended up first of all hurting damaging killing more civilians than anything that could off he had done and today leading to a situation of virtual tribal war clan war decentralization and the breakup of libya now imagine replicate that situation in a post interventionist stage in syria. now saudi arabia is reportedly gearing up for military action against syria it's all about claims the gulf state has already put militants fighting the assad regime but its payroll israel's news agency thought to have close links with israeli intelligence says saudi troops are moving