Saying that Obama is showing restraint in Syria because he is come grand strategist isn’t being truthful. He is indecisive and impotent. But, in this case, we don’t really have a dog in this fight. Obama wants to get rid of Assad just because it’s on the to do list that the Brotherhood gave him, but there is no reason we should care. Sometimes maybe you should just let the Sunnis and Shiites (and Russians) kill each other. Syria is a Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iranian, Turk, Kurd, Saudi, Qatari, Israeli problem.
Iraq is a different thing. I don’t know if it’s too late for us to offer useful help to the Iraqis and keep them from turning to Iran for support but we should do, or at least should have done, something about that.
Remember, Obama told Iraq....looka got a little ciil war and you have to take care of it yourself. Over and out.
And ISIS aka ISIL aka alqueda moved in like bats in the night.