Former Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland, Sen. Marsha Blackburn and former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman weighed in on the instability in Syria.
Syria’s future remains unclear after Islamist rebels toppled the Assad regime, seizing control of Damascus and driving the Syrian dictator out of the country.
Foreign policy experts and officials alike reacted to the news on Sunday, speculating about what might be in store for the Middle East nation and the American forces residing there.
« Who knows what’s next? » former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland asked.
McFarland joined « Fox & Friends Weekend » to discuss the unrest. Like others, she suggested the change paints an uncertain picture.
« [Bashar Assad] was weak and incompetent, and he was propped up in governance in Syria by Iran and by Russia, by Russian forces, by Russian military equipment, by, in some sense, Iran’s money, but they’re preoccupied now… Iran is preoccupied because of what Israel did to Iran and Hezbollah and Russia is preoccupied because of Ukraine and a faltering economy, so those two guys propping up Assad, they’re not, they were propping him up as well », she said.
« But the [multiple] rebel groups got together, and they saw a moment of opportunity, and they moved into Syria… and President Trump is so right to say, ‘let it play out.
