throwing the gotland ntlet down and saying, look, we have something you want. host: here is a tweet. from zechariah, allentown, pennsylvania, good morning to you. caller: i have a simple question. something am having difficulty understanding. --we have a way to control sad and his military have had difficulty controlling isis. how are they going to control a nation? the beauty of rhetorical questions is the answer is in the question. i think you're right. i have trouble personally and imagining how a free syrian army , a sort of fledgling democratic government, even imagining that ,hat was possible in damascus and would maintain territorial control over all of syria and be able to unite a fractious tribal society, and the lesson for that is iraq. and iraq had the advantage of ofs of hundreds of thousands coalition troops backing up the government, years of funding and andning a new iraqi army police force. syria will not have any of that stuff. the thing that scares, and kind of exhausts me more than anything when i look at what the u.s. policy in syria appears

throwing the gotland ntlet down and saying, look, we have something you want.ere is a tweet. from zechariah, allentown, pennsylvania, good morning to you. caller: i have a simple question. something am having difficulty understanding. --we have a way to control sad and his military have had difficulty controlling isis. how are they going to control a nation? the beauty of rhetorical questions is the answer is in the question. i think you're right. i have trouble personally and imagining how a free syrian army , a sort of fledgling democratic government, even imagining that ,hat was possible in damascus and would maintain territorial control over all of syria and be able to unite a fractious tribal society, and the lesson for that is iraq. and iraq had the advantage of ofs of hundreds of thousands coalition troops backing up the government, years of funding and andning a new iraqi army police force. syria will not have any of that stuff. the thing that scares, and kind of exhausts me more than anything when i look at what the u.s. policy in syria appears to be i