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The overwhelming majority of the Syrian People wand Bashar Al Assad gone. By the way, they are not extremists and jihadists, the Syrian People reject extremists and jihadists. How right is senator mccain . Joining me to discuss that are. I thank you all for joining us. We saw a car bomb go off near the headquarters of the coalition formed by the army. No group has taken cyd. There is increased fighting between the alqaeda groups and moderate forces lately. As assad forces have increased their military movements. Ambassador, what are you seeing inside syria now that u. S. Policy has evolved as it has and intervention pulled back . Well, i think theres two things i would point out. One of them is that the u. S. Is seen to be weak and uncommitted, that we are not committed about engaging in syria. Thats the lesson out of the last couple weeks of activity with the u. S. Pulling back on strikes and the russians taking its place in the conflict. You see assad using all means at his disposal, including chemical weapon to say try to impose his will on the Syrian People and killing as many as necessary in the process. You see the alqaeda supported and extremist supported groups trying to advance their agenda. What you see are the once feeling buffeted by the drift away from International Engagement that weve seen in the past calm weeks. On the alqaeda front, the head of alqaeda issued a warning last week about anyone who worked with the west. The United States and its allies tried the best to support the secular parties but failed. They started to form new awakenings in syria and they will fail. I warn not to form any relationships with these parties. What happened is egypt is a perfect lesson on this. Hes talking about the people you represent. Hes basically talking about alqaeda fighting against the Free Syrian Army. What does this mean for you and the situation in syria . His statement was nothing short of a declaration of war against a moderate Free Syrian Army. You also had a decree issued byes Islamic State of iraq further declaring war specifically against two moderate Free Syrian Army simply because they stood in the way of alqaedas attempts to expand influence in the north. Youre seeing as result of this tension heightened fighting between the Free Syrian Army and alqaeda fighters. Alqaeda has assassinated at least free Free Syrian Army commanders in this past month alone. Youre seeing car bombs targeting Free Syrian Army headquarters in the east. The rhetoric has significantly heated up between alqaeda and the moderate free syrian early. Youre seeing clashes simply coming to a head that are boiling over, because quite frankly, alqaeda views the Free Syrian Army as one of its biggest threats. Lets look at the latest study on the rebels. Its sobering. Less than one third of the Opposition Forces are seen as acceptable partners for the nato allies and thats something american officials have acknowledged. If we look at the actual numbers, 1,000 rebel fighters, but 1,000 different factions. Alqaeda controls 10,000 fighters, but as many as 35,000 jihadists may be allied with alqaeda and another 30,000 referred to as more moderate is lackic factions. Do you agree . That doesnt leave too many people that the u. S. Would want to help. I think weve been looking at a very large spectrum that makes up the syrian opposition. 100,000 fighters and as the report points out, there is not an incredibly large portion that are traditional secular mod receipts that we would traditionally want to partner with. They put the number at 10,000 extremists, alqaeda affiliated groups. Theres also this kind of larger theres also the majority of the group there that is particularly focused on national amps. I think probably more conservative than western officials would like to work with. Theres a Free Syrian Army, mort traditional moderate. They are not trying create some sort of transnational. The director of the Carnegie Middle East Center recently said that the rise of the islamist extremist groups just mentioned by ken that its a far bigger threat to the region than assad staying on for a few more years in damascus. Thats a pretty extreme statement. This is a guy that killed hundreds of children with chemical weapons and displaced people in his country. Certainly, these groups are a serious threat. Lets not treatise as an either or. If assad stays in power, these forces still going to be there fighting against assad and still getting external support. Its not as if assad stays in power and these forces go away. Its perhaps assad stays in power and they keep fighting or perhaps they take power and thats bad, too. The thing you have to remember is that the reason these forces seem to be strong right now is because for the past year, the moderate forces have been starved of support from international community, the west, the United States, has been reticent about getting involved while the more extreme elements have been garnering support from countries around the region and extreme elements. What we need to do is figure out exactly what that carnegie report is talking about, where does the future go. We need to support a future that is not feeling extremist groups or retaining assad in power. The Free Syrian Army is very angry about the u. S. Not intervening. Heres what the head of the Free Syrian Army said about the russian sponsored agreement on chemical weapons. The russians and Syrian Regime are playing games to waste time and win time for the criminal regime in damascus. We think that our friends in the western countries, and the United States know exactly the main goal of the russian administration. They are trying to find a solution for the regime in damascus. The general wants some support from the other rebel factions. Who dan he work with . There is a moderate there are moderate rebels that one can work with. We are seeing this dynamic play out on the ground. Assad that ha attempted to present himself as the only alternative. Many have forgotten that alqaedas presence in syria is not a product of the syrian revolution, but its been a result of a longstanding policy by the assad regime to have it jihad defighters to leverage them against the west. We are finding that the Free Syrian Army is at the forefront of pushing back against alqaedas attempts to expand influence throughout the country. If you do not empower the moderate opposition, usual left with a vacuum that alqaeda will be able to expand. The assad regime is part of that problem. Ken, do you agree, a final word here, that american policy should focus on helping the mod receipts . I think it has been focused on helping the mod receipts. Its important to understand that the potential deal with russia is not trying topple the assad regime. At the end of the day, u. S. Goals and the goals of Free Syrian Army differ. The Free Syrian Army and most of the rebels are determined to end the assad regime, topple it. U. S. Goals are not necessarily aligned with that. Other focus has been on chemical weapons, preventing the creation of a new afghanistan, some sort of base of operations for a transnational terrorist group to operate. I think thats why weve seen contributions in u. S. Policy. We have a variety of different goals, but a lot of conflict. Benefiting one can hurt some of our other goals there. Well see what comes out of the security council. 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