What Is The U.S. Really Doing In Syria?

Tony Badran, Tablet: What the United States Is Really Doing in Syria

Tag-teaming with Russia and dumping regional allies and NATO, the White House tells the rest of the world to go take a hike.

Whether they support or oppose it, most observers converge on viewing President Barack Obama’s Syria policy as generally marked by passive detachment. After all, the president ignored the recommendations of many of his cabinet members and close advisers to arm Syrian rebels in 2012, or to enforce his “red line” against the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons to massacre civilians. Worried about being sucked into another Middle Eastern War—one that would pit the United States against one of Iran’s key allies in the region—Obama said no. Whatever happens in Syria can hardly be America’s fault, when we tried our hardest to stay out of the entire mess, right?

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WNU Editor: Tony Badran gives the White House far more credibility than what they deserve. I do not see a master U.S. plan in action .... what I see is an administration that does not want to get involved in another major Middle Eastern war, avoid all the hard decisions, and try their best to hand this mess to the next administration .... and let them pay the political price for what may transpire.