al-zawahiri said syria is the place for the move to gain -- mujadeen to collect. they -- now, zawahiri is asking for more to exploit the sectarian violence in syria. that is important. that does play into another broadening fame in the wider middle east which is this shia- sunni split. the belief that this decade has advantaged tehran. this is the interesting tactical shift. tactics do not vocalise strategy. to the extent al qaeda manages if it is not an aspiration, only violence can bring change, you have not got al qaeda. it is something analogous to trade unionists or social democrats. that takes time. 100 or 150 years. if we get to the point where all the heads of the residual core want to talk about how they have influenced the parliament in agent or syria, that battle is just about one. -- won. the voices of the people, [unintelligible] they can't do without the oxygen of violence. that is where they lost footing as people have had alternatives in the greater the middle east. >> i think you touched on it a couple of times. for a game changing watch, watch th