Nobody should shed a tear for this regime falling.

Nevertheless, from the Wall Street Journal on down,

these utterly naive analyses that,

oh, well, this new guy may have been al-Qaeda,

but he's a moderate now who's replaced Assad.

That's sheer lunacy.

As part of our special series on the transition period,

Sebastian Gorka breaks down the complexities of recent events in Syria,

and what many don't understand about President-elect Donald Trump's approach to geopolitics.

So it's this fine line between insane interventionism of the neocons and ridiculous isolationism of the neo-Bucananites.

President Trump is about one thing, peace through strength.

Gorka is Trump's pick for Deputy Assistant and Senior Director of her Counter-Terrorism

at the National Security Council.

The last three minutes are the most important things President Trump has ever said in terms of history. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jan Yakeleck.

Sebastian Gorka, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders.

Great to be back. Thank you for having me, Jan.

Well, we're going to talk about the incredible complexities of Syria today.

But before we go there, congratulations on becoming the deputy assistant to the president and

Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council.

And that's an elevated role for this position, as I understand it.

It is unusual to have, so this is the Byzantine minutiae of White House ranking structures.

There are three senior positions inside the White House working for the president.

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