Another foreign policy triumph

Obama administration considering support for Islamists in Syria?

There are no good options — and there never were any from the start of the civil war. All we have is a choice between radical Islamists of varying stripes, or the current despot backed by Persian Islamists. We shouldn’t back any of them.

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The Obama Administration bungled everything from Day One, and this is the result.

There were no GOOD options, only the POOR (Assad retains his strong man rule) vs. the DISASTROUS (Syria controlled by radical Islamists supplied by Iran).

As might be expected, Big-Talker Obama chose -- nay, promoted -- DISASTROUS by verbally encouraging the moderate opposition with promises of military aid, then refusing to supply it after they were in the field, leaving them hung out to flee or die. (There must be a circle of Dante's Inferno reserved for this kind of treachery, one of the lower ones surely.)

Now that it's way too late, he's got Kerry over there floundering around trying to promote a face-saving deal with fanatics who don't make deals, and who wouldn't honor them if they did.

It's the definition of a Fool's Errand, and it makes the U.S. look worse than pathetic.

The scope and reach of Obama's incompetence is breathtaking.

Byron