The Best Commentary That I Have Read On The U.S. Role In The Syrian Civil War

Syria’s Chaos Isn’t America’s Fault -- Aaron David Miller, Washington Post

Who lost Syria? Comments of some U.S. senators, analysts and journalists, including the editorial board of this newspaper, suggest there is no doubt: Bashar al-Assad and his thugocracy are primarily responsible for the killings, but the tragedy of Syria is also a direct result of a terrible failure of leadership on the part of the international community, and of the United States in particular.

Syria, it is charged, is Barack Obama’s Rwanda.

Don’t believe it.

The idea that Syria was anyone’s to win or lose, or that the United States could significantly shape the outcome there, is typical of the arrogant paternalism and flawed analysis that have gotten this country into heaps of trouble in the Middle East over the years.

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My Comment: I concur .... the Syrian civil war was started by Syrians .... caused by an intransigent government and a Sunni population who decided to say 'enough is enough'. And while we all do want to help the Syrian people .... as we have learned in Iraq and in Afghanistan .... our involvement will not help stabilize a tribal/religious/sectarian conflict that has been ongoing for decades if not longer .... and where the international consensus on this conflict is completely absent and/or disorganized. The best that we can do is to provide humanitarian assistance and to support our allies in the region .... and to watch very closely on what happens to all of those WMDs when the conflict is finally over and Assad is out of power.