tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post2381647032856354147..comments2023-10-05T08:44:09.303-07:00Comments on JG, Caesarea: Washington Post Editorial, "More waffling on Syria": Obama's Greatest Failure?Jeffrey Grossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847518948270295312noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-47566558648891228132015-09-20T07:22:11.772-07:002015-09-20T07:22:11.772-07:00Some might think #44's greatest failure is yet...Some might think #44's greatest failure is yet to be revealed, e.g., Libya, or bringing back the race wars of 1968, or today's news threat: Taliban steals a Pakistani nuke ...<br /><br />It is his greatest failure at the moment, because Europe is now affected, and the Senate Dems on the Armed Services Committee exploded over Syria last Wednesday, using same words in WaPo, and Der Speigel:<br /><br />http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/many-syrian-refugees-fleeing-civil-war-have-lost-faith-in-a-solution-a-1052576.html<br /><br />"...Two years ago, it still would have been possible for the West to intervene on behalf of the moderate rebels. But skeptics feared that intervention in Syria would lead to more violence and deaths, the triumph of jihadist radicals and the collapse of public order. All of these things have occurred -- not because, but despite the fact that the West did not intervene.<br /><br />If US President Barack Obama had ordered air strikes on the military's nerve centers following Assad's poison gas attacks on the Damascus suburbs, the regime probably would have collapsed. At the time, intelligence services were already observing efforts by officers and soldiers to defect. But Obama apparently was unwilling to risk an overthrow of Assad and the resulting power vacuum.<br /><br />But what could have been worse than what happened after that? In September 2013, IS had not yet begun its victory march, around 130,000 people who are now dead were still alive, and it would have been much easier to preserve the entire country than it is today. ..."<br /><br /><br />enough.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com