When I look at Turkish troops and American-backed Kurdish troops virtually shooting at each other, and various allies supporting the Assad regime, which most of us would agree is despicable, it's a threat to our ability to work on these issues. It's a good example of the fact that if you get into something such as the Middle East where there are so many different players with so many different agendas, you're going to get pulled one way or another.
The fact that the Russians went in and took advantage of a vacuum that was created and are now there has created a whole new dynamic.
I read a lot of Middle Eastern stuff from Haaretz. It's maybe not the newspaper of choice of a lot of people, but believe you me, there's a lot of information that is quite extraordinary going on, the complexity of trying to sort out that mess.