A US-Fueled Syrian Sectarian Bloodbath

August 31, 2016 | https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/31/a-us-fueled-syrian-sectarian-bloodbath/

The Obama administration helped fuel a conflict in Syria that inevitably was going to degenerate into a sectarian bloodbath, a reckless strategy pushed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as Gareth Porter explains.

By Gareth Porter
The main criticism of U.S. policy in Syria has long been that President Barack Obama should have used U.S. military force or more aggressive arms aid to strengthen the armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. The easy answer is that the whole idea that there was a viable non-extremist force to be strengthened is a myth – albeit one that certain political figures in London and Washington refuse to give up.
But the question that should have been debated is why the Obama administration acquiesced to its allies funding and supplying a group of unsavory sectarian armed groups to overthrow the Assad regime. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/31/a-us-fueled-syrian-sectarian-bloodbath/