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here with ivan watson and professor ajami. your final thought?read the memoirs of bill clinton. look back on rwanda and felt the shame and guilt of having left the people of rwanda to suffer the way they did. i think president obama will reflect on the abdication of the power in syria. >> you've been covering this for 14 months. >> i think what's striking is 14 months and every friday people come out and demonstrate and call for freedom and call for change. and the kids come out and the men and the women. and the fkt that that momentum is kept up after all this time is truly incredible. one of the sad things, we don't know what the people in the middle think. we know what the regime thinks, ma the demonstrators think. we don't know about the skard people in the middle who are afraid to talk to us who we can't reach who are watching their country torn apart. >> most of the people in these camps are sunni muslims who have had the blunt. you can hear the call to prayer right now. thank you for watching this "360." we'll see you again 10:00 p.m. east

here with ivan watson and professor ajami. your final thought?read the memoirs of bill clinton. look back on rwanda and felt the shame and guilt of having left the people of rwanda to suffer the way they did. i think president obama will reflect on the abdication of the power in syria. >> you've been covering this for 14 months. >> i think what's striking is 14 months and every friday people come out and demonstrate and call for freedom and call for change. and the kids come out and the men and the women. and the fkt that that momentum is kept up after all this time is truly incredible. one of the sad things, we t

i'm joined by ajami, author of "the syrian rebellion." thank you as ever for joining us on the program. the important point he raised, that if the natural community has left a vacuum in syria, there is a chance the al qaeda will come in to fill it. >> katty, you have it right. that's the proper way of thinking about it. 15 long months now of the syrian rebellion. the syrian people wait -- waited for the reign of mercy. they did not receive it. they waited for the democracies to come. they waited for the cavalry to come. they waited for the united states to make a decision and 9 the united states hid behind the united nations security council and now we find ourselves in this desperate moment. i am very dubious, by the way, about this whole story about the prominence of al qaeda. but if they are there, it is the responsibility really borne by the democracies. >> fouad, i have just -- you have just returned from turkey. you've been to the refugee camps along the border. did you find in turkey any willingness from syria's neighbor to actuall

fouad ajami joins me from new york.other want chaer perhaps even more bloody and brutal if you can imagine. that was in away, you could tell that this was the radicalization of syria foretold. if the powers were not going to come to the help of the syrians, the arab govern ams were not coming, if turkey was not coming, if nato was not coming, now here we are in month 14 and we were destined to enter this phase of bloodshed. here's what neil writes today and i'll put it up on the screen as far as this most recent attack on the intelligence compound in damascus, 55 people at least killed, 400 injured. the attack put a spotlight on the growing involvement of islamic jihadists in the the five bashar al assad, particularly those from an iraqi branch from al qaeda that has been openly agitating to join the fray. that prospect raised fears that syria was heading into the kind of chaos and bloodletting that plagued iraq and served as a training ground for terrorists. do you accept that? >> well, wolf, i have great respect for n

want to talk about it with fran townsend and fouad ajami. fouad, you and i were on the border just a couple weeks ago. i mean, the world cannot say they didn't know that this was happening. everybody is shocked at the death toll over the weekend, this massacre of children. but we have seen children killed now for 14 months. >> you were in the tents and you talked to people. you talked to children, one boy. i'll never forget him who said we can't live like this. we want our freedom. so these people want their freedom. but i'll tell you one thing. this is now, this massacre, the hula massacre is a turning point in a fight we never thought would have a turning point. >> you believe it's a turning point? >> it's a turning point for the syriaens. i'll tell you why. because the murders were down surrounding hula. here you have hula, a very quaint place in my childhood. we thought of hula as a place of no significance. in fact, it wasn't just the army. it wasn't the forces, it was the surrounding villages that did most of the killing face to face.

i want to talk about it with fran towson and fouad ajami. the world cannot say they didn't know this was happening. i mean, everyone is shocked at the death toll over the weekend, the massacre of children. we've seen children killed now for 14 months. >> you you will understand, you talk to children, one boy i will never forget. he said, we can't live like this, we want our freedom. this massacre, that would be a turning point in a fight which we never thought would be a turning point. >> you believe it is a turning point? >> yes, i'll tell you why. because most of the killing was done by the villages surrounding houla. have you houla, a very good place. in my childhood we thought of houla as a place of no significance. it wasn't just the army, it was the surrounding villages that came and did most of the killing face to face. i think we're inned midst of a fight. we always knew we would end up there if this fight goes on, and we have come to that point. >> do you agree this could be a turning point? >> i hope so. but this is, as you point o