bringing his meeting with the opposition set to take place in a few hours time the anti war activist brian becker believes the syrian rattles are not willing to make any compromises. syrian opposition has come to the conference kicking and screaming in the first place they don't really want to be there because there's nothing that they think that they can get from the conferences syrian opposition only wants one thing which is to replace the assad government with their own government include the assad government that geneva is prepared for a political settlement but won't agree in advance that the assad government will disappear or no longer be present in syria for our forces with in the assyrian armed opposition those affiliated with al qaeda those who are getting the bulk of the times from saudi arabia and some other regimes in the in the middle east. they don't look for a negotiated settlement they're not going to agree to a negotiated settlement. so it's not possible for the syrian government to see the syrian opposition is a real partner for negotiations when there are two wins two armed win

cross-talk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a radio show host or a gentleman cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage you brian is it time for washington to tell saudi arabia to pound say and well i think it's been long established that the u.s. government considers the saudi government to be an indispensable ally not its only ally and perhaps now not its principal ally but certainly an important one ronald reagan made it clear more than thirty years ago that there would be quote no revolution in saudi arabia because the u.s. was just absolutely determined to keep the absolute a small.

brian becker believes washington's warning about. just a new way to push on to assad's government. it's a clear indication that the obama administration is looking for other rationales other pretext to keep the pressure on the assad government and when i say pressure that's kind of euphemistic what they're really doing of course is creating a great international crime by funneling arms and weapons and money to an arms struggle in other words for mental and civil war so that they can destroy an independent nationalist government in this region of the world we've gone through this script before we saw it in iraq we saw it in libya we're seeing it in syria united states government is carrying out an armed struggle policy a civil war policy and they need to keep up public rationales also they need a way to balance against geneva but he need to find a way to continue to demonize the assad government because the ultimate goal is to get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement it's been more than a month this is the mystery novels seize the industrial syrian town of andhra and alleged

to cross-talk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a radio show host or a gentleman cross-talk roles in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it brian is it time for washington to tell saudi arabia to pound sand. well i think it's been long established that the u.s. government considers the saudi government to be an indispensable ally not its only ally and perhaps now not its principal ally but certainly an important one ronald reagan made it clear more than thirty years ago that there would be quote no revolution in saudi arabia because the us was just absolutely determined to keep the absoluteness monarch in power there not because they care so much about what's going on inside of saudi arabia but because they consider it to be essential as the main oil export or in the world in a geo strategic ally but of course the saudi government has other things to worry about prin