Obama: Would be a ‘mistake’ to believe anything I say
A much bigger mistake at this point is to continue to support the wrong side. We should be doing everything we could to be SUPPORTING Bashar al-Assad, right alongside the Russians.
Assad may be a gold-plated SOB on the order of Saddam Hussein, but whoever would replace him would be infinitely worse. There are no “moderate” Muslims in this conflict.
The genie is out of the bottle, and there will be hell to pay stuffing it back in. The only way out is through to the other side.