I said back in 2011/12 that the whole U.S./Turkey/Saudi/Qatar/European near decades long covert regime change agenda against Assad, which flowered public in the form of the “Syrian Opposition” was a bigger blunder than working with the Pakistanis and Saudis to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan.
In the end, for the U.S., Syria went from being a contained and manageable security concern, to one with massively increased Russian & Iranian assets and influence in Syria.
How in the hell did the stupid blockheads think (a) Assad would concede a single demand to the opposition, and (b) would it came to conflict Assad would not use the massive responses he could, and (c) following the war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq that the American public would buy American intervention to actually topple Assad.
None of that was likely, and yet upon the Arab spring the single was given by the western backers that the “Syrian opposition” could begin its share of the regime change agenda against Assad and once their heads were raised the west would go in and back them up.
Now Russia is in the Middle East right where the U.S. never wanted it and will never be happy or feel secure about it.
Syria Regime Change - possibly the biggest blunder of the west.
Wolfowitz Doctrine. Clintons supposed to be a royal family and rule the world. Nothing could go wrong.