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The matter is, syria is not a homogenius population. about 70% is sunni arab, but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shiaisms. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of allies. many alowese have never benefitted from this regime and many urban sunnis have. so there's a coalition of interests here. and the demonstrations would have to get much, much larger and stretch the capacity of the regime security services to the point where some people thought about maybe making their own deals and abandoning ass...

Now you see them -- we're looking at them right now, breaking statues of him, of his dad, actively calling for that. >> it's tragic but the fact of the matter is, syria is not a homogenous population. about 07% of the country is sunni arab. but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shi'aism, like the alowese who were at one time the most downtrodden group in syria. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of allies. i don't mean to suggest it's all alowese. many alowese have never benefitted from this regim...

Ease things economically, create a stock market, private banks, more license for business and the like. but he still wanted to keep an iron grip on the politics of syria. and that's the way things have played out over these 11 years. >> what would it take for protesters to be able to really make some sort of crack in the regime? because they have now, as you well know, when they started this they weren't calling for, you know, the downfall of the regime, they weren't calling for assad to be out of power. now you see them -- we're looking at them right now, breaking statues of him, of his dad, ...

Sunni arab. but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shi'aism, like the alowes who were at one time the most downtrodden group in syria. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of allies. i don't mean to suggest it's all alowese. many alowese have never benefitted from this regime and many urban sunnis have. so there's a coalition of interests here. and the demonstrations would have to get much, much larger and stretch the capacity of the regime security services to the point where some people thought abo...

Many others, though, remain a mystery. >> we have to understand that in very fluid, revolutionary situations the bad guys often are at a great advantage over the good guys. >> and then there are the radical islamic groups, a study by the u.s. military academy west point found libya sent more islamic fighters per capita to iraq than any other muslim country. most came from eastern libya, where the current uprising began, an area once described by u.s. diplomats as a breeding ground for islamic extremists according to wikileaks, but like the revolutions in tunisia and egypt, islamic groups have ...