eric: welcome to fox news. we'll bring krishan wieden, the former state senior advisor and george w. bush. the administration is basically abandoning syria and leaving it in the hands of iran and russia or is this a wise direction? >> at the wise direction. the president has made clear all along he didn't want to get enmeshed in syria beyond the primary goal and primary threat to the united states, which as i says. he said all along and lo and behold the u.s. military analysis done a pretty good job, just a little bit left. as far as managing the outcome of the syrian civil war, what do other people control, they'll have a much lighter impact on not because frankly we have other interests elsewhere in the world. bolton and trump have been something important, which is to cut back on u.s. assistance, which has been replaced by saudi assistance. that makes a lot of sense so other powers will have influence