global public square. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from istanbul, turkey. we ve been talking about the situation in neighboring syria. should the united states strike damascus or not? what do people in the region think? soli ozel is a professor of international relations at turkey s university and fawaz gerges is in london. he is the author of obama and the middle east, the end of america s moment. welcome, both. soli, let me ask you, if the united states miscalculated about the durability of the assad regime, so did syria s next-door neighbor, turkey. the prime minister also thought assad would go and declared he was going to go and seems to have been caught in a similar miscalculation. turkey has been trying to build up some kind of moderate, legitimate alternative to assad as a political leadership and