marine corps general zinni. he was not an admiral. tell you, general zinni, we appreciate it. joining me now, maria cardona, ana navarro. so we have a great thing and then on the other side it's basically two questions. can we trust the syrians and the russians and why do we expect syria to do something unless their teeth are in this? >> look, we can not trust mr. putin. that's why the president said we have to verify this. but what we can hope is that this deal with yield the results if the united states is seeking and that is to destroy the syrian use of these chemical weapons, destroyed their stockpile and hopefully -- i don't know if anyone is saying this but we should say this -- we need a cease fire in israel. >> honestly, that kind of clouds up the picture. i think the president has been pretty clear about, okay, this is about chemical weapons only because once you start expanding it to cease fires, something assad is not likely to do when he's in a position of strength in the field -- >> the president keeps talking about the p

retired marine anthony zinni says you cannot allow yourself to get pregnant.ost" ifthe washington you say you are going to repeat if unacceptable things happen, you might find the people that keep doing unacceptable things and it will suck you in and there is president obama -- here is president obama. >> we are prepared to work with anyone, the russians and others, to bring the partners and to solve the conflict. >> or with the russians -- how to deal with this, cruise missiles? more questions than answers. calls thezine" president a reluctant warrior. others in the neighborhood, the consensus seems to be he is a week president. on the issue of a syrian challenge, how would you categorize this president, mark? >> alone, lonesome. when -- theo say british member of parliament summed it up when he did not realize prime minister cam and did not realize -- when prime minister david cameron did not realize how much the well had been poisoned by the war in iraq on the basis of incomplete evidence and an unexplained mission with its limits. >> a reluctant warrior, o