So we got to talk about Syria. We got to talk about Assad. We got to talk about Biden. We got to talk about Trump. We’re going to spend 10 minutes on this. Let me give you all an update on the U.S. striking Syria after rebels overthrow Assad. Check it out. Let’s start with Madeleine Rivera in Washington with the latest on what’s going on in Syria and the reaction in Washington. Maddie, good morning. Good morning, Carly. President Biden is looking at the situation in Syria with cautious optimism. The U.S. is waiting to see what leadership group will fill the vacuum left by President Bashar al-Assad.

It’s a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for the proud country. For years, the main backers of Assad have been Iran, Hezbollah and Russia. But over the last week, their support collapsed, all three of them, because all three of them are far weaker today than they were when I took office. You heard the president there taking some credit for the toppling of Assad. He’s referencing the support the U.S. has given to Ukraine and Israel, which he says has shifted the balance of power in the Middle East. Moving forward, the president says the U.S.

will engage with different Syrian groups, though he notes some of the rebels have their own ties of terrorism. Administration officials also say they need to make sure there is no resurgence of ISIS. To that end, yesterday, the U.S. launched dozens of strikes on more than 75 ISIS targets in central Syria. Got to launch some more strikes. Got to launch some more strikes. United States of America launches more strikes. We just we just we just got to get involved. We involved in almost every single world conflict. We got our hands in it. We got our weapons in it.

We got our money in it. We got our ties in it. We got our fight in it. We just going to launch some more strikes on Syria in the name of ISIS. I ain’t heard the name ISIS in so long. We got to have our hands in it. Got to have our hands in it. Got to put the hands in it. I just I just don’t understand it. Honest to God, I don’t understand it. Assad, they say, he sought refuge in Russia. So he’s over in Russia, chilling. They found his cars. They got a whole set of cars.

But boy, we got to put our hands in it. If our hands ain’t in it, then it ain’t good. It ain’t worth having a conversation about it. My name is Bennett, but my hands is in it. I just don’t understand why we got to be involved in every thing, everything. General Michael Eric Carolla says there should be no doubt we will not allow ISIS to be constitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria. The U.S. has another priority, securing the chemical weapons possessed by the Assad government, preventing them from getting into the wrong hands.

So the Biden administration says it has no intentions of intervening militarily. On that point, the administration and president-elect Trump agree. Trump says the U.S. should stay out of the fight in Syria. And like the president, he believes Russia’s abandonment of Assad led to his downfall. Trump says now is a time for Russia to negotiate a ceasefire deal with Ukraine. All right, Madeleine Rivera live for us in Washington. Maddie, thank you so much. Let’s bring in a research fellow at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies, rather. Hussein Abdul Hussein, good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us.

So this rebel group that has taken over is a designated terrorist organization that had links to Al-Qaeda. So how does this news out of the Middle East impact us here at home? I haven’t heard of Al-Qaeda in so long. Good morning, Carly. Well, we saw the president, the chief of this organization coming on an interview and promising that he has changed and regretting what he’s done in the past to an extent, saying that he was too young and immature. He almost said all the right things, but we can’t really judge him by his words.

We have to wait and judge him by his deeds. So far, I don’t see any alarming signs for us here at home, but we never know what happens. We’re still too early on and things are still changing at a rapid pace at this point. So yesterday, I guess I just don’t understand why we are now targeting or sending hits over to Syria in the name of ISIS. I don’t get it. And again, maybe I’m a little rusty on my international relations or the conflicts has happened and over in Syria specifically, but all this means is that they have even more instability in the region.

And so my question then becomes who then becomes the leader over there? And I’m not saying that Assad is awesome. No, he wasn’t awesome. He was absolutely a monster. However, I’m just trying to understand exactly why we then have to have our foot in the door and what is it that we’re going to do going forward? What happens now? Is there going to be another uprising of another group that then gets into power that has to be toppled again? I’m just trying to understand genuinely. I want to understand the US launched airstrikes against ISIS camps inside Syria.

And the message being, don’t even think about reconstituting and using this crisis in turmoil as an opportunity when it comes to ISIS. Where are we right now? Well, ISIS has been trying to reconstitute for a long time. The fact that we had targets and we had not taken them out for some time tells us that we’ve been monitoring them, that they have been trying to come back and that we still have them on the radar, which is a good point. We have them. We’re still focused. Somebody said Assad used chemical weapons on his people.

No. I don’t know. Listen, I don’t know, honestly. And I wish the best for everybody. But my question, this is my question. Why are we always at the forefront? Who are we? Like, why do we always got to get our hands in and involved? And where does it benefit us? Because if you’re telling me, well, anti, we’re in it because we want what’s best for the world, I tell you, B.S., I tell you, you lying. Use a lie and the truth ain’t in you. OK, cool. Is this atrocity? Is that atrocity? And this is happening or whatever.

Cool. Make Syria great again. I got you. But what I’m asking is what benefit is it to us and why are we involved in it? That’s what I want to know, because I don’t believe in any way, shape or form that we get involved with things because we actually care about what’s going on over in other people’s countries. I don’t. It has to be some tangible benefit. In addition to us being a war party, and we know that there’s being a lot of profit that’s made for certain people. That’s a part of the military industrial complex, especially on the behalf of taxpayers on ISIS.

I don’t see them really coming back as they did in the summer of 2014. But they are certainly a threat. And with a new Islamist group taking over in Damascus, I think they they might think that this is the good opportunity for them to come back and to start doing whatever they were doing 10 years ago. So you just heard President Biden say there say that the reason this has happened is because Iran and Russia has been weakened. Should the Biden administration take credit for the toppling of Assad in that way? They want all of the credit for everything.

I wouldn’t say that they should. Most of the steps along the way that got us here, mainly the fight that Israel has launched against the proxies of Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. The administration has not been as supportive. The administration has always called on de-escalation and sorts of a band-aid solution in that part of the world. The Israelis, thankfully, didn’t listen and they went after Iran and its proxies. And this is the result. So I wouldn’t say that the Biden administration should be taking for whatever is happening now.

So Israel and Syria share a border. The New York Times is reporting that Israeli ground forces crossed into Syria for the first time since 1973. What is the significance of that? And what does this shake up in Syria mean for Israel? Israeli posture tells us that the Israelis are not really optimistic that they are nervous. The fact that they gave up on the deal that they had with the Syrian government suggests that they do not think that what we have now in Damascus is anything similar to the government that entered into the agreement of 1973, 1974.

So the Israelis are taking precautions and I think they’re acting independently in preemptive self-defense. There are no signs that things are. I asked Eric D a question. I said, hey, big dog, do you think that you don’t think that there’s never going to be world peace? I’ve seen your car’s response. I said, do you ever think that there’s going to be world peace? He says, not until Jesus comes back. When Jesus comes back, I’m not sure that that’s going to actually be world peace. That might be, that might be a little bit of a reckoning, don’t you think, especially since half of these people don’t believe in Jesus.

Anyway, Kamala Harris certainly didn’t believe in Jesus. But yeah, man, I think that the war machine continues to rage on. I don’t want the United States of America to be involved in any other wars, and I think that we need to remove ourselves instead of putting ourselves further into it. No more strikes. No more missiles. We got to take care of home first. [tr:trw].

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