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As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, consider the world he has left us.
In Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s regime—backed by Iran and Russia—is finishing a savage bombing campaign to retake Aleppo. Tens of thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been exiled and an entire generation of Sunni Arabs in the country have been embittered.
An administration whose members once touted a doctrine called the “responsibility to protect,” now silently watches a genocide, evidently believing that U.S. intervention would somehow make the situation worse, and probably threaten what this president views as his prized foreign policy trophy: an agreement with …read more
Source: Newsweek
