This week, President Obama has been talking up his foreign policy accolades in New York and sending his surrogates to applaud all of his many successes, from opening up Cuba to inking the Iran nuclear deal. The trouble is the gaping wound that goes untreated in the cradle of our civilization: Syria.
Overlooking this, or at least failing to even nod at it, as speeches by Obama’s foreign policy advisors appear to indicate, is an abdication of the responsibility to protect innocent civilians. It also is a way to dodge the proverbial elephant in the UN General Assembly: that Assad …read more
Source: The Huffington Post