Yeah. Absolutely. Its far from it. And we all collectively laid out some details to support that. Do you see any way to defeat isil in syria without a substantial arab army involved . I dont know how you get there. I mean obviously, if we deployed tens of thousands of troops ourselves we could defeat isis in syria. I dont think anybody here would recommend such an event. I think the people who have vested interest there should be involved and i think they would get involved. I mean, you know that they said as much, but we have to do something to change the momentum of the assad regime. Dr. Kagan . Is it fair to say that no arab army is going into syria unless part of the one of the objectives is to take assad down . Absolutely senator, thats going to be a precondition for because theyre not going to just fight isil and leave assad in power therefore giving the place to syria, is that correct . On the contrary i mean to iran. On the contrary. What were seeing is increasing levels of sup
Know the human terrain in these areas very very very well. They are ruthless, and they are committed and determined. And theyre exhibiting the will to fight. And theyre fighting for pewer, theyre fighting for ideological reasons. But for many sunni arabs who are sfrus frustrated. Theyre fighting for they land families, and future and theyre not. Theyre fighting anyway because theyre fighting for their own lives and their own future and theyre fearful. There are many sunni military aged males to date that have not taken sides in this fight. Its just a matter of time if this polarization continues and we let this drag on that isis will gain more and more recruits from the iraqi population base. The iraqi fight with isis is not dominating by foreign fighters. This is a home grown fight and we have to keep that in mind. Isis, as fred mentioned maintains operational freedom in most of the sunni arab provinces and they remain stronger because importantly relatively their opposition is very w