Schieffer on Syria Deal: Whether it Works ‘Only Thing That Matters’

CBS’ Bob Schieffer argued in his weekly commentary on Face the Nation Sunday morning that the process leading up to the Obama administration’s deal with Russia over Syria’s chemical weapons may not have been pretty, but that it was ultimately irrelevant if President Bashar al-Assad was disarmed.

“Depending on who you ask, there are many roads to heaven,” Schieffer began, “but what we’ve been seeing this weekend underlines there may be even more routes to getting rid of Syria’s chemical weapons, and the path we’re on is more like a wilderness trail than a superhighway.”

Schieffer recounted the vertiginous spiral of events that took the U.S. from an imminent strike on Syria two weeks ago to a diplomatic solution with Russia on Saturday, but concluded that the messiness mattered less than the result—an argument not unlike one President Barack Obama made himself on This Week With George Stephanopoulos.

“Critics may say better to be lucky than skilled,” Schieffer finished. “But as we say on the golf course, there are no pictures of how you did it on the scorecard. The only thing you put on the scorecard is the score. If this works—and we have to hope it does—that will be the only things that matters.”

Watch the full commentary below, via CBS News:

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