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Gene giovanni, she has been covering the middle east and syria for more than 25 years. she is the author of the morning they came for us, dispatches from syria. janine i think it's important on the eve of potential war in syria to remember the people of syria. this is not necessarily a welcome thing for the people remaining in syria. it's not clear that this ends the war or brings it closer to a conclusion. >> absolutely. i mean we are not sure what it will bring. about you look at the past air strikes, they weren't that punitive. they were more i think of a moral symbolic gesture. you have to...

Northwest of the country, al qaeda. we have wide out isis? what about al qaeda? they are still in the northwest. we need a long term strategy to ensure they will not develop and even -- you know, grow even faster. then we have to think about in the aftermath let's say these strikes end the war and diplomacy comes in and we get a peaceful negotiation at least. how do we divide up this country? how do we reconstruct it. >> more importantly, looking to past wars like say bosnia why were hey treads linger for so long. in a country like this, thousands have been killed, people have been burnt outsi...