some people in the administration who worried that cause had been at the end be toppled in extremis would take over those of us who were following syria more closely kept telling them stop worrying about that the extremists are no stronger than a lot of the moderate elements and they're not going to take over it might just shift the fighting a little bit but there will not be an islamic state declared in damascus the controls syria. must side interpreted the president's decision as a sign of weakness and used the situation to his advantage he knew that the western leaders feared that if he were overthrown there would be chaos they seem to be more concerned about the threat posed by the islamic state group than by his regime. the sheva said that if bashar decided that if he focused on fighting the jihadists the west would be less inclined to attack him surely out of shueisha way that china