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The Fall of Aleppo and the Ruin of American Foreign Policy
Reuters reports that Bashal al-Assad's forces have made major advances behind a major Russian air offensive and are now poised to destroy the non-ISIS rebels opposing the Syrian government is rocking the foreign policy establishment. "After three days of intense fighting and aerial bombardment, regime forces, believed to include Iran-backed Shia militias, broke through to the formerly besieged regime enclaves of Nobul and Zahra."...Apart from derailing the administration Syrian initiative, the return of Assad from political death behind the bombs of the Russian airforce calls into question the sincerity of president Obama's policy in the region. By contrast with the Russians it seems almost as if the administration were simply going through the motions of combat. The performance of the miniature, "rust bucket" Russian air force has formed an invidious baseline to what the USAF has achieved. ...Someone has to ask: what goal does America still have in the Middle East beyond defending the tattered political image of president Obama? The real scandal in the Hillary Clinton emails are not the technical violations of security the administration has abetted, which Andrew McCarthy convincingly details. It is the mind-boggling incompetence manifested by the emails themselves. The offensive in Aleppo shows Obama has either gotten everything wrong or was dishonest to begin with. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-02-04 |
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