„Die Syrienpolitik der Obama-Administration ist irrsinnig“

„The Russian government, much less the Assad regime, has never been a reliable partner for peace in Syria. But even after Russia’s alleged bombing of the aid convoy, U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration is still plowing its energies into a deal that aims to work with the Russian government. (…) Unfortunately, it is indisputably true that most Syrians living in opposition areas now view al Qaeda as a more trustworthy and capable protector of their lives than the United States. If there were ever a sign of policy failure, this would be it. (…)

Skeptics of a more assertive approach to the Syrian crisis can deride their critics as much as they want – but one would hope that after five years of failures, they would at least admit that they have got something wrong. In the meantime, we will have to watch the results of the shameful U.S. approach play out on our television screens – until the day when those results might hit us at home.“

(Charles Lister, Autor von „The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency“, für Foreign Policy: „Obama’s Syria Strategy Is the Definition of Insanity“.)