and i think that's wrong. certainly looking back on world war ii, imagine had we not entered that war what the results would have been for the world. >> you speak as a war correspondent. fareed, what do you think about that? >> well, i think the question really is it's not enough to be outraged by what's happening in syria because there's all the reason in the world to be outraged, but how would an american military intervention stop the suffering? as i can see it, american military intervention, even if it is successful, would depose assad. we know what would happen, assad and the alawites and supporters of that regime would fight back as insurgents, there would be phase two of the civil war in which the sunni militias that are currently opposed to assad will go on a rampage and slaughter the alawites and their supporters, then there would be infighting among them. we have seen this movie before. this is exactly what happened in iraq. so i'm perplexed by sebastian's point that american military intervention has always stopped and solved wars.