there was a new government. what are you hearing? well, one of of the catastrophic mistakes of the united states was to dismantle the iraqi force, and we paid the price for tens of thousands, and tens of hundreds of new unemp y unemployed soldiers who are now without a income and yet they have military training. so we paid the price there. and now, the easing out of assad, and a long look at the members of the government, and those who are accused of the wartime atrocities will not be included. but once the agreement is there and once we have found out who the bad guys are, then absolutely, a role in the post-assad syria for the syrian military. you have said that efforts to end this civil war in syria