committed to a transition process that would preserve and protect the state of syria, would accommodate the various sectarian interests inside of syria, so that no one party was dominant. and would allow us to return to some semblance of normalcy and allow all the people displaced to start moving back in. we are far from achieving that yet. i would not completely discount the fact that in this latest round of negotiations what you saw was a coherent, cohesive, reasonable opposition in the same room for the first time negotiating directly with the regime. now, the regime -- assad's regime wasn't particularly responsible. and i think even some of their