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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defensive Democracies,

keeping the Long World Journal, joins me as my colleague and co-host,

and we're very pleased to look at Syria through the reporting of Ahmad Sharrari,

of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

who's helped us understand Syria in a momentous transformation, if successful, from a failed state ruled by the Assad family for decades

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