that part of the world of western and american efforts in the region to remind them of iraq and other campaigns in that part of the world. >> soli, let me ask you again, though, this issue of trying to create a moderate syrian opposition, this has been the stumbling block for the united states. as i understand it, they want to be more involved in helping create that opposition, they just can't find it. turkey has had a similar experience. are we to conclude from that that the opposition to assad is largely very sectarian, very hard-line sunnis and it's very hard to find kind of moderate, pluralistic, more mainstream kind of people who we could ally with? >> well, the thing is, by now it is very fragmented and it appears from every report that i personally saw that the most