comprehending to it and you degrade significantly assad's military capacity, and at the same time compliment the opposition forces by upgrading their capacity. so what happens? you change the momentum from in favor of to in favor of the opposition forces, and then put the opposition's forces on a path to success which would eventually lead to toppling the regime. we won't topple the regime by the use of air power but we can degrade. >> what about an exit strategy? >> well, an exit strategy is hard to see. i think it's true of most conflicts you. would want stability in the region and stability in syria. in terms of our own military intervention, this is not going to be of long duration, military intervention, not a campaign of