https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dqp842nl8oThe syrian reset is in full effect, with Trump meeting and shaking hands with Ahmed al-Sharaa, who until December had a $10 million bounty on his head as an Al Qaeda linked terrorist on our kill list
This is probably the right direction for the moment even if the long term is unpredictable, given its certainly better than a return to chaos and HTS is holding back the genocidal sentiment. But boy oh boy did we somehow manage to make our already schizophrenic policy in Syria somehow even more schizophrenic. Lets remember.
We recognized an independent Syria in 1943, then we tried to overthrow al-Quwatli with a failed CIA coup in 1957, except then even after the democratic coup in 1961 the CIA supported the Ba'athist coup in 1963 that brought Assad to power, except we severed relations again after the Six-Day War in 1967 but we thawed relations under Nixon and Carter but then became hostile to them again under Reagan but allied with them for Bush's Gulf War and continued the thaw with Clinton and then Baby Bush went hostile to them again and Obama finally intervened in the Arab Spring to directly try to overthrow Assad except then we did a 180 still under Obama and supported Al Qaeda and the Kurds to fight Assad's enemies in ISIS and then supported Turkey to crush the Kurds and then under Biden we supported Al Qaeda to overthrow Assad again and now under Trump we're supporting Al Qaeda to hold back ISIS remnants from massacring Assad's supporters and jesus christ the amount of whiplash in this run on sentence is insane