A former US Ambassador to Syria says the collapse of the more-than-50-year Assad Regime in Syria is a happy coincidence for the US. 

Leader Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus for political asylum in Moscow. 

US President Joe Biden's called it a 'historic opportunity' to build a better future. 

Former ambassador Robert Ford says Biden shouldn't take credit - and Assad's control of major cities was very brittle. 

"When pushed - that is, to say, when a serious armed opposition attack came - his soldiers didn't stand and fight. Instead, they ran away."

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