A Senate Hearing on thursday the president has committed as a matter of strategy that we will not leave syria were going to stay for several reasons stabilization and assistance in the vital north and northeast protection of our allies the Syrian Democratic forces but for other reasons as well including countering iran. But those offer up a lot of question doesnt it lets try and answer some of them and go live to middle east expert as ziad elise a visceral highs and a good to have you on the program the u. S. Claimed it was in syria to fight i say lots what we heard all along no its going to kuntar iran was not part of the plan all along do you think. I do believe that this is part and parcel of a concerted effort and straining to keep shifting the goalposts they claimed they were in syria to actually fight and eradicate eisel when in reality when they actually sat on the fence in iraq and they stood ideally by why while actually allowing us to expand and to reach the actually the bord