joe lauria, let me start with you. that was lop sided if non-binding vote. what does the results from the general assembly today tell you about who's lining up for and against the damascus government? >> well, there are very few that are supporting damascus anymore. this is rebuke to assad and puts political pressure on him although he seems to be impervious to it. and it isolated russia which tried to add amendments that were rejected by the arabs. so there were a few countries that voted. iran, of course, because iran is at the center in many ways of this conflict. in syria the russians wanted to put an amendment to have foreign fighters no longer be supported or to have the opposition declare that they will dissociate themselves from the foreign influence and they have blamed other countries for backing extremist groups. now the syrians have gone as far as to name qatar and saudi arabia in particular for backing extremist groups, not necessarily al qaeda. as we've heard now they have, interestingly, entered this conflict in the u.s. and the west and secre