our interest is to make sure that that doesn't happen. that is why we attacked the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds, are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we don't want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, and control of all of syria. we don't want them to inherit the isis territory. we would like to see that held by pro-western, pro-saudi, sunni forces. and that would mean one settlement would be that you get a regime in damascus running the west side of syria, essentially, whereas the middle of syria is controlled by the rebels. that is a far --dash a far more