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A Middle East Tragedy: Obama's Syria-Policy Disaster
05/30/14
Flynt Leverett , Hillary Mann Leverett
Security, Syria
"How many more Syrians need to die before Washington rethinks its policy?"
For
over three years, the United States has sought to overthrow Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad by supporting an Al Qaeda-infused opposition
that Washington either knew or should have known would fail. Yet, in his commencement address at West Point on Wednesday, President Obama promised the American people and the rest of the world more of the same.
Obama’s
vague pledge to “ramp up” support for selected oppositionists is a
craven sop to those claiming that U.S. backing for the opposition so
far—nonlethal aid, training opposition fighters, coordination with other
countries openly providing lethal aid, and high-level political backing
(including three years of public demands from Obama that Assad “must
go”)—has been inadequate, and that Assad could be removed if only
America would do more. This claim should be decisively rejected as a
basis for policy making, rather than disingenuously humored, for it is
dangerously detached from reality.
Read full articlehttp://nationalinterest.org/feature/middle-east-tragedy-obamas-syria-policy-disaster-10565
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