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The Obama administration's decision to ask Congress for $500 million in June 2014 to aid moderate forces in Syria including the Free Syria Army
06/27/2014
The decision follows gains by the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) extremist Sunni militants over large areas in Sunni parts of Iraq. Sunnis alienated by the Maliki government's policies favoring Shiites have supported Sunni militants. The move comes late in the conflict after the Sunnis are left to fend for themselves in Syria and Iraq, and continues a policy of no active engagement of U.S. airpower in the region- increases aid that is already being sent, and serves the purpose of checking the gains of the ISIS, making no significant change to the situation in the region of a refugee crisis and expanded conflict. The move may be intended also to show a balance of support to Sunni and Shia, as the Obama administration is supporting the Maliki government against ISIS. The same support of moderates with a "no fly zone" could have kept U.S. combat forces out of the region and achieved what was achieved in Libya of freeing the region of the Assad regime, not emboldening Russia's Putin, stood up for America's support for democracy and freedom and condemnation of the use of chemical weapons, been consistent with American public opinion's desire for no large interventions overseas, continued focus on the domestic economy, and not compromised severely the hard won gains of America's military and servicemen in the last decade. So weak has been the Republican response and so partisan the politics, that few Democrats voices have been heard to questions the policies, so that a muddled policy based on the president's inclinations has been allowed to look sensible. It has made the U.S. look weak in Europe and Asia, as Russia and China have been emboldened in each region. Democrats have only to look to Truman in 1947-1950 when Berlin, Greece, South Korea, were not left to fall into chaos with millions of refugees and Russian Communist influence, to see the difference with the current policies, without a knee jerk reaction to the Bush era.
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Obama's Foreign-Policy Failures Go Far Beyond Iraq
Wall Street Journal 06.27.2014
Syria Is Breeding Western Terrorists, U.S. Warns
Wall Street Journal 07.09.2014
Washington Post 07.12.2014
U.S. Sees Risks in Assisting a Compromised Iraqi Force
New York Times 07.13.2014
U.S. Approves More Hellfire Missiles for Iraq
Wall Street Journal 07.30.2014
Leaving U.S. Allies Adrift as Chaos Rises
Wall Street Journal 08.01.2014
Iraq Crisis: Effort to Aid Kurdish Forces Puts Iran, U.S. on Same Side
Wall Street Journal 08.14.2014
Want to Defeat ISIS? Help the Syrian Opposition
Wall Street Journal 08.14.2014
U.S. Widens Air Campaign in Northern Iraq
Wall Street Journal 08.18.2014
Obama Acknowledges U.S. Erred in Assessing ISIS
New York Times 09.28.2014
Obama’s Dual View of War Power Seeks Limits and Leeway
New York Times 02.11.2015
U.S. to Give Some Syria Rebels Ability to Call Airstrikes
Wall Street Journal 02.18.2015
Gen. Martin Dempsey Leaves a Legacy of Caution
Wall Street Journal 05.06.2015
Defending ISIS Policy, Obama Acknowledges Flaws in Effort So Far
New York Times 05.21.2015
U.S. to Defend New Syria Force From Assad Regime
Wall Street Journal 08.03.2015
More waffling on Syria - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10.02.2015
The deadly consequences of mislabeling Syria’s revolutionaries - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11.19.2015
No, Mr. President, staying out of Syria didn’t save lives. It cost them. - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02.16.2016
U.S. to Send 250 Additional Military Personnel to Syria
Wall Street Journal 04.25.2016
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