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To our ability to support them. there is some truth to this. of course, we would prefer that the opposition be united around a common agenda, a common leadership, because we are not just looking to topple assad but we are looking to ensure that what follows him is sort of a stable and not anti-american government to avoid what we have seen in egypt and libya and elsewhere. shepard: is there a sense that behind-the-scenes, maybe not in front of the cameras and in the newspapers, that someone is making some progress learning who the people are? guest: i hope so. this is a problem identified early on. if we not working on it, it suggests it is a pretext for inaction. to be clear, we should not exaggerate the extent to which there are extremists or terrorists involved. they are probably a small minority. we should not underestimate our own ability to shape the common agenda and the common structure of the syrian opposition. ....

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