President Barack Obama’s most tangible success in his push to stop Syria’s bloodbath — a cease-fire struck in late February — is rapidly turning into a failure. His fiercest critics in Congress, meanwhile, are basically saying, “I told you so.”The always-fragile truce “may be breaking down” the president acknowledged Thursday while visiting Saudi Arabia. And he still sounded more optimistic than others.Syrian opposition leaders, angry over Syrian President Bashar Assad’s renewed airstrikes against rebel strongholds, are using terms like “buried” to describe the cease-fire. The Soufan Group, a respected intelligence consulting firm, declared Thursday that the cease-fire has “effectively collapsed.”In …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
