Obama's Syrian Nightmare

From The New York Times via H/T at Instapundit:

Syria will be the biggest blot on the Obama presidency, a debacle of staggering proportions. For more than four years now, the war has festered. A country has been destroyed, four million Syrians are refugees, Islamic State has moved into the vacuum and President Bashar al-Assad still drops barrel bombs whose shrapnel and chlorine rip women and children to shreds.

For a long time, those who fled waited in the neighborhood. They wanted to go home. They filled camps in Turkey and Jordan and Lebanon. When it became clear even to them that “home” no longer existed, nothing could stop them in their desperate flight toward the perceived security of Europe. The refugee crisis is the chronicle of a disaster foretold
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President Obama has tried to claw back American overreach after the wars without victory in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Actually, we had won in Iraq until Obama threw it away. And Syria, alas, is not Obama’s only debacle. What’s missing from Cohen’s column? Hillary’s complicity. And Joe Biden’s.
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Like Carter’s weakness with Iran, we will be paying for Obama’s criminal negligence for a long time.

There is only one American who is haapy with this debacle, Jimmy Carter. Now he won't be considered the worst foreign policy president of American History.