we re seeing in syria. we ve gotten a awful lot of people that bear some responsibility there, including the united states. assad is probably the primary villain for what s going on if syria. iran bears some responsibility for injecting themselves into the civil war. hezbollah is there. we ve got a number of opposing forces. a lot of extremists that are part of those opposing forces in syria. the problem with maliki who basically threw the sunnis not only out of the government but out of the military, added fuel to the development of isis and i think the united states by virtue of not getting involved sooner in trying to establish some kind of moderate force there, i think all of those are factors that have contributed to the situation that we re facing now. all right, our panel is also here with me, my colleague tom brokaw of nbc news, kathleen parker of the washington post, helene cooper of the new york times and ron foreigni ieforni
we re seeing in syria. we ve gotten a awful lot of people that bear some responsibility there, including the united states. assad is probably the primary villain for what s going on if syria. iran bears some responsibility for injecting themselves into the civil war. hezbollah is there. we ve got a number of opposing forces. a lot of extremists that are part of those opposing forces in syria. the problem with maliki who basically threw the sunnis not only out of the government but out of the military, added fuel to the development of isis and i think the united states by virtue of not getting involved sooner in trying to establish some kind of moderate force there, i think all of those are factors that have contributed to the situation that we re facing now. all right, our panel is also here with me, my colleague tom brokaw of nbc news, kathleen parker of the washington post, helene cooper of the new york times and ron foreigni ieforni