00:00Now, let me say that no one here has ever disputed that the challenge of Syria was going to be
00:06a very significant one.
00:07A very significant one.
00:09We are dealing with elements that, as we've said in the past, we have concerns about things that they have
00:15done in the past.
00:15But the bottom line was, we had two choices in Syria.
00:19Choice number one was to let the place fall apart into 18 different pieces.
00:23Long-term civil war, instability, mass migration, playground for terrorists, ISIS running all over the place, Iran getting back in.
00:32That was choice number one.
00:33Choice number two is to try to see if it was possible to work with these interim authorities and with
00:39al-Shara and with his team.
00:41Guess what? We chose number two because it was made sense.
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