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National security expert KT McFarland on the continued fighting in Syria and the future of the Assad regime.
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The national security analyst who appears regularly on fox Fox Business to deliver followed mormons -- following morning -- straight.
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And -- much of kids could still employed -- -- a little partisan go to -- I don't know action midnight and and it's a killing field.
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-- killing field.
Damascus is under fire.
The rebels in Syria that who have been fighting for eight or nine months with no success.
In the last week it scored major successes they blew up.
The equivalent of the Pentagon -- saying -- -- that the Syrian leadership and they -- the defense minister the deputy defence minister who is president sounds brother in law.
Another official and then just a few minutes ago has confirmed that the intelligence chief was killed.
So that's all good news from the sensitive it's weakening in the Asad regime the bad news though is we're not sure who the rebels are we're not sure what happens.
When a -- leaves which looks like it will be close sooner than later.
And that thing that I worry -- about a certain off a lot of the chemical weapons that Syria hands aside.
Has stockpiled mustard gas sincerity and cyanide he presumably got some chemical weapons from Iraq right before the Iraq War.
And -- -- surface and you and you want to make sure that whatever happens in Syria those weapons are secured and they don't.
IMF and the international arms market and -- ultimately come to movie theater near you.
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Your arms gone on doesn't matter at all.
It's -- get out they're -- they veto these kinds of things because the Chinese and Russians.
Don't want anybody interfering with their domestic affairs but -- -- Russia vetoes that because Russia's federal state -- Syria.
It sells military equipment to Syria and -- recruitment is a very good.
So serious one of the few countries which buys it because Syria doesn't have any other options oppression as a -- there and it's Russia's toehold in the Middle -- so they're really tied.
To the aside regime so they -- it really matter events are happening so quickly.
In Syria that sanctions which might take effect eventually at some point in the future.
It's out of events are -- taking any kind of United Nations sanction.
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We're just ask the biggest question of off which nobody else seems to be asking nobody notice he replaces him.
Is that is that the rebels who are the rebels are rebels seem to be lock on original groups.
Well you what you're about is that what happens is it ends up being like -- -- in 2006.
That there's no clear successor to this very tight regime that in a power vacuum a lot of groups start fighting then you have ethnic -- sectarian violence.
That not only -- Syria -- breaks out.
And spread to the other countries in the region I mean in the last week you're -- 100000 refugees 20000 refugees.
Has strained and eleven on just in the last two days.
So -- this could this has a threat of destabilizing the entire region.
Which isn't good for us.
Because ultimately maybe it spills over and effects Israel.
-- the good news and all this though is a sounds a bad guy he's going to be gone.
And he's Iran's major ally in the region and so what's bad for Iran it's ultimately probably pretty difference.
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-- they were talked about as the reformers in the middle else and I really is just.
Appalling I -- I guess that's a sign -- I wanna be profiled and Vanity Fair.
And I wonder who's responsible for those.
-- -- -- -- -- -- At least a -- and Israeli tourists aside.
Well this looks like it -- an Iranian attempt either working -- Hezbollah who are their proxy client their terrorist group.
In Lebanon they use them as they're sort of foreign legion.
And there and Iran is behind a number of attacks against Israeli civilians throughout the world Cyprus it was a failed attack and Azerbaijan.
They're not very affected -- tax except for this one.
That's in -- now I think with Iranians are doing as they can't attack Israelis and Israel right because this rose to secure.
So what they're trying to do is pick them off around the world and I think they're trying to lure.
Israel -- responding to take the bait.
And then respond in some way and -- that makes the Iranians today because and they can say holy war -- the Israelis are attacking Arabs are attacking Muslims.
It's time to go after Israel and unite and what does that do it let's Iranians.
Kind of to have everybody's attention away from the fact that things are really bad and Iran right now.
Economically and and that the fact that there are sanctions against Iran and Iran gets tips -- divert attention to Clara holy war and that's what I worry about.
In the Middle East -- -- -- all this chaos may lead to another Arab Israeli conflict.
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