Bill Kristol

I think this is correct.

Quietly was willing to let others help.

The people who did end up deposing Assad, really the Turkish-based forces there.

And we're not in great terms with Turkey.

We've got all kinds of issues with Iran.

But you know what?

That's part of what you do is you do that stuff quietly and behind the scenes.

And you ended up with a real victory for freedom there.

We'll see how that works out in Turkey, Syria.

But so far, better than it was, certainly.

And I don't know, does the Trump administration even have the wit to do anything different?

resembling that in terms of getting others to help behind the scenes to get real support to these people who deserve it i i wish they did but i there's no evidence of it it'd be nice something good happen in the world you know we've had a lot of uh the the forces of autocracy and authoritarianism have advanced quite a bit the last decade so it would be nice to have uh

And just to go all for 30 seconds of us, of neocon kind of, you know, people want freedom.

I mean, are we allowed to say that anymore?

I mean, it's sort of encouraging that they do and all honor to them and they're being unbelievably courageous and there's something heartening about that, right?

No, no.

I just struck that.

I'll just take 30 seconds on this.

I mean, it became sort of fashion.

I noticed this on the last couple of weeks.