extremist islamist sympathies. so what does that say? if you get rid of a assad and one of these groups come on in take share the same basic ideology of isis, is anybody better off? absolutely. you have to get rid of assad and isis for any stability in this entire region. secondly, in iraq we dealt all of the time with islamic religious parties from the shia side and sunni arab side. much of the middle east has ideologies that indicate the islamic law should be applied. and basically social values and rules that we in the west don t find com mattabbapatible with o. the question is will they take up arms against us and fellow muslims who don t believe what they believe. and that is a different question. but that s the whole concern. you don t want to help people who will turn around and attack you you once they get in. 60% of these rebel groups have