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Israel, you have turkey, qatar, and saudi arabia. on the other hand you have iran and you have hezbollah, not to mention the basic disagreements between the united states and russia. it's an open-ended war by proxy. one of the major reasons why the united states and russia now have intensified their effort to find a diplomatic solution is because of the fear not only the potential of syria breaking out, but the expansion of the conflict into a regionwide conflict. there is a real risk. it would take a spark to ig intoity a bigger clash, a bigger fire that basically will most likely devour not ...

Syria, the western countries as well. remember, one of the major reasons why the united states is reluctant to basically provide arms for the opposition, because they fear not only the arms will fall into the wrong hands, but they fear that the militant elements within the opposition have the upper hand within the armed coalition inside syria itself. >> you have been very prescient, accurate about forecasting what is going to happen in syria. two years ago you said assad will not fall when everyone thought it was going to be a matter of weeks. even the white house was predicting it. yet you ha...

But it comes amid escalating tensions between the two countries after syria was hit with massive air strikes over the weekend. a u.s. official confirms the attackses weractionacks were la. it killed 42 soldiers and left 100 people missing. farwa georges joins us now. he's the author of "obama and the middle east." also the author of "the rise and fall of al qaeda." professor thanks very much for coming in. you write if the strikes are confirmed to be israeli attacked, and we at cnn, we have confirmed this now, it would show the syrian conflict has mutated you say from a political uprising to a...

Military intervention would exacerbate an already dangerous conflict. i would like the united states to become more involved politically. i would like the president, the united states and russia, to really redouble their efforts to reach an understanding, a political settlement, whereby the opposition and el mbements the syrian government talk about a solution to remove assad from power rather than remove assad by force. this is not going to happen as long as it is a war by proxy that has been raging for the last two years. >> what about the latest suggestion out there, the insinuation not the...

Is an open-ended war by proxy. it's no longer an implicit war by proxy. on the one hand, you have israel, regional powers and the western states. on the other hand, iran, hezbollah and syria. i would argue, wolf, it would take a spark in this calculation to ignite a bigger conflict in the region. i would argue also that the main target, the main target of israeli's alleged attacks against syria were not just the assad governments and at ataass army but rather hezbollah and iran. you will see deepening involvement of hezbollah and iran in syria. they will go to great lengths to prevent the remo...