senator marco rubio, criticizing the empty rhetoric, his words. this is why iran is more deeply than ever involved in arming and provide providing financial support to al assad, why russia makes a mockery of obama's reset by supplying currency for al assad and why russia and china continue to stifle u.s., arab and european efforts at the united nations. when you hear that, when you hear that criticism, fareed, is it fair? >> i think this is purely campaign rhetoric. the syrian situation is very complicated, not entirely clear how to handle it. it is a very, very sad, tragic, humanitarian catastrophe, causing regional instability. but what does senator rubio propose? when vice president biden challenged congressman ryan at the debate, do you want u.s. intervention there. if you don't want u.s. intervention, what should we do? do you want to try to get some kind of sanctions embargo, no fly zones? for all of that, you need other countries to help you, which means you need the arab league to sanction it or request it as they did in libya or the u.n. to do so, which they did in libya, or are
