it depends. what is our interest in syria? first of all, it s not about a peaceful syria. we don t care about them. they ve been our enemies forever. what does it matter? we don t care about syria per se. what do we care about? one, we take isis, what would hate happening is that we walk away and they come back to reoccupy prey that would be bad. we don tra want to rack in jordn to be destabilized. we would hate if that spilled over. we don t want israel and iran to come to had because iran would love to drive a superhighway and come off the other end. we also don t want to have a huge humanitarian on steroids through all these millions of refugees in western europe, destabilizing. we don t want these things to happen. we should come out of syria. but the question is, we need to come out in a way that those problems don t come back and bite as. tucker: what you just said,
why in the world would we ever want to be involved in anything like that? we don t want to. what we want is a region that doesn t fall apart and creates bigger problems. that is the only issue, you want a policy that doesn t do what barack obama did, which is, say, declare victory and walk away and then what happens is all the problems, you have a bigger problem than when you started. if you remember tucker: did obama not being engaged in the region was the reason there was a syrian civil war? nolle. but because the way we pulled our troops out of iraq and when we did in the way we leave the politics to unravel and interace problem of syria to destabilize iraq, which created a caliphate, and attracted tens of thousands of foreign fighters from all over the region. we are worried about these foreign fighters tucker: quick, why should i think assad is bad? i don t
empathy. empathy requires us to be able to understand human beings in the age in which they lived. you are not tearing down a statue of mckinley. you re tearing down the representation of all the americans who voted for him, agreed with him, supported him. you are in fact disowning your own history and saying, i m just going to live in a hyper disconnected from my past. tucker: i knew you could explain it better than anyone i ve ever met. that is exactly right. that is what bothered me about it. thank you for articulating thatr i appreciate it. if. tucker: thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: america s military presence in syria could be coming to an end but some people are upset at the prospect of that. one of them drawing just in a minute. there is no video of something pretty amazing shot by a passenger on a commercial airliner just the other day. it s actually unbelievable. we are not going to describe it. we will let you decide what you
big a member of syria s palestinian minority a half might survive diaster the bombs and hunger he s written a book about his experiences entitled verdun singham or and the birds will sing in it he describes his sheltered upbringing in what was then a peaceful syria his blind father who made musical instruments and his friends in damascus he recounts how the rebellion began the horrors of the war and his dangerous escape to germany. but time and again his music gave his people solace and encouragement and music literally saved a life he played amidst the rubble in the bombed out streets of his neighborhood you tube videos made the pianist of yarmuk world famous. he kept on playing during the gunfights in the ruins of yarmuk islamists captured
and member of syria s palestinian minority a half minute survive diaspora the bombs and hunger he s written a book about his experiences entitled verdun singham or and the birds will sing in it he describes his sheltered upbringing in what was then a peaceful syria his blind father who made musical instruments and his friends in damascus he recounts how the rebellion began the horrors of the war and his dangerous escape to germany. but time and again his music gave his people solace and encouragement and music literally saved a life he played amidst the rubble in the bombed out streets of his neighborhood you tube videos made the pianist of yarmuk world famous.