The news that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been ousted is neither good news nor bad for the rest of the world, as the fight between the dictator and the Islamist rebels who ended his regime pitted “bad guy versus bad guy,” retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Sunday.

“This is not a Thomas Jefferson moment,” Holt explained on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “Nobody’s going to have a tear for the Assad regime as this brutal dictatorship after 53 years leaves.”

But now, with the Syrian government being overthrown, “Al-Qaida is moving in,” said Holt.

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