Is The U.S. About To Abandon Syria?

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Eli Lake & Josh Rogin, Bloomberg: White House Is Weighing a Syria Retreat

A week into Russia's military intervention in Syria, some top White House advisers and National Security Council staffers are trying to persuade President Barack Obama to scale back U.S. engagement there, to focus on lessening the violence and, for now, to give up on toppling the Syrian regime.

In addition, administration officials and Middle East experts on both sides of the debate tell us, Obama's foreign-policy team no longer doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to prop up President Bashar al-Assad and primarily target opposition groups other than the Islamic State, including those trained by the Central Intelligence Agency.

WNU Editor: Since the beginning the U.S. has followed a policy to keep its involvement to a minimum, and to minimize U.S. casualties. This policy has only created more bloodshed, a massive refugee crisis, and the disdain of our allies (and enemies) in the Middle East. A U.S. retreat from Syria will surprise no one .... and in fact .... will probably not even be noticed.