So the answer to Assad’s ouster is to bolster Assad’s greatest ally. Hmm. Which is what the EU wanted all along; remember that the other members of the P5+1 aside from the US, UK and Russia are Red China, France and Germany (who is the “plus one” nation).
Its good for the defense industry...I heard El Rushbo with his own voice speak of Boeing getting to do business with sanctions lifted on Iran.
And the rest of it you can read online....heck Boeing did a big deal with El Al for aircraft after getting to do business with Iran again.
How does that jibe.
The foreign policy elites did business with Chinese Communists as leverage against Soviet ones in the 1970’s to play them off against each other.
There were ‘good Communists’ and ‘bad Communists’ back then with Nixon vising Romania to embrace the murderous Ceaucescu.
American companies did business with the Soviets and Chinese in that era.
A similar play underway by the foreign policy elite playing Shia and Sunni off against each other and doing business with both in our time?
In Syria it has certainly been decided by Republicans and Democrats that there are “good terrorists” to support and “bad terrorists” not to support.