Quote (Prox1m1ty @ 14 Sep 2023 21:34)
Had Obama gone into Syria and removed Assad, would the excess deaths caused poor building code in Syria after the earthquake also be the US' fault?
Here is an article I found for you at the Modern War Institute website of West Point academy that defines what Obama did in Syria through this succinct article. A premier US institution teaching future NATO leaders
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/after-a-decade-of-incoherent-strategy-in-syria-a-way-forward/Quote
The single greatest blunder the United States made in Syria was to support armed Islamist opposition groups, in partnership with Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. This policy effectively began in 2012, became increasingly reckless over the course of 2013, and was finally axed in 2017.The CIA’s vetting of rebel groups was supposed to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of radicals. Instead, most of the arms Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia smuggled into Syria went to armed groups with links to the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafi-jihadist networks. Rather than pave the way for a political transition, such policies only fueled a destructive civil war that accelerated the emergence of jihadist armed groups.
The epitome of all that went wrong with US policy in Syria was Timber Sycamore—a billion-dollar CIA program to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting the forces of Bashar al-Assad. Timber Sycamore ultimately failed to unseat Assad, helped turn Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia, and caused untold misery to the Syrian people. A three-year study funded by the European Union and the German government later established that efforts by the United States and its allies to arm Syrian rebels “significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons” of the Islamic State.
This post was edited by Malopox on Sep 14 2023 01:46pm