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Assuming Israel succeeds in breaking Hamas’ political hold on the Gaza Strip, the postwar priorities for Israel and the United States are likely to

The south china sea. so syria will not get solved. it is a going to come apart in the coming decade or so. its a civil war between the sunni and the shia exacerbated by outside actors. i dont think there will be a good outcome. we can alleviate the human misery of the syrian people by aggressively spending significant resources along with our european allies of trying to sustain them in jordan and turkey, which we ought to get going on. >> malcolm, note how the conversation about russia has chan...

They say in these last six years of conflict 45% of the population of syria has been displaced is otherwise on the move or has moved to a neighboring nation. having said that, what do you think the best possible outcome is in syria? >> i dont think there will be a good outcome. this is not a vital u.s. national security interest. our interests lie with north korea, russian aggression in eastern europe, iranian nuclear weapons, chinese adventurism in the south china sea. so syria will not get sol...