[Mariner]

Wow, there are still people out there who think Obama should have done more to overturn Assad.

It's a good thing they no longer have any influence on conservatives, and most certainly not on this incoming administration.

[dsc]

I thought, hindsight being 20-20, that people had come to understand that we should have done *nothing* to topple Assad.

[HokieMom]

There’s a video on facebook of Syrian Christians in Aleppo celebrating Christmas for the first time in 5 years.

[Mr. Mojo]

“There is no doubt [President Obama] will be hammered in historical terms. The question will be why he didn’t do more,”

The question is, why did he side with jihadi "rebels" (including ISIS by default) against the relatively secular Assad regime? Answer: because he's a Moslem Bro-hoodie jihadi to the core.

[HokieMom]

Syrian Republic on Saturday

#Aleppo celebrating Christmas for the first time in 5 years.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0kko1YWgAAZPUq.jpg

[Billthedrill]

"Moderate rebel groups." Right.

We'll be paying for the idiocy of the Arab Spring for decades to come. Europe is paying now. Remind me again, who was Secretary of State for this series of debacles in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria? Oh, yeah - the "most experienced Presidential candidate in history."

[HokieMom]

Trying again:

Syrian Republic on Saturday

#Aleppo celebrating Christmas for the first time in 5 years.

https://www.facebook.com/United.Syrian.Republic/?pnref=story

[Jack Hammer]

The gormless obama has never had a ‘doctrine’ unless its considered the fawning concession to moslems and the promotion of world terrorism.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It should all work out. Just submit to the present government and go to work. We’ve had to do that here for years.

[Robert357]

I loved how Obama drew a red line and then thought he would have to act. Then Putin played Obama like a sucker. Of course Obama is so much of a nothing that Putin, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, the Muslim Brotherhood and a host of others have manipulated the Big Zero consistently.

Just a few weeks and Obama will be behind us.

[BeadCounter]

But the Russians left 14 Russian tanks for ISIS at Palmyra.

ISIS = Russia.

USAF destroyed those tanks.

[Robert DeLong]

hands-off counterterrorism doctrine

Huh? We was arming the terrorists, so there was no hands-off doctrine. Just backed the wrong horse and lost. Further destroying the Middle East and most of Europe as well. Though he had willing support in the destruction of Europe, and through Europe the Middle East.

[WMarshal]

I hope that every one of Obama’s pet jihadis gets a bullet to the face.

FU BO!

[rwoodward]

Barry and Big Mike cannot gtfo of the white house soon enough! Trump will need to disinfect and excorsize that building before even considering living there.

[Gen.Blather]

“Moderate rebel groups”...There are no moderate rebel groups if you are Christian or even a different flavor of Islamic. Whoever came to power in Assad’s place would likely just be a different flavor of ISSIS. ISSIS is essentially what you get when you render down the Koran to its basic tenants. None of the Koran is good for those who are not running the government or who are Christian.

[exDemMom]

...sounds the death knell for the outgoing Obama administration’s hands-off counterterrorism doctrine...

How on earth can one take a "hands-off" strategy towards terrorism?

Whatever. Obama's strategy was to destabilize Middle Eastern regimes and foment terrorism. The ultimate goal with that is the downfall of Western Civilization.

Thank God Hillary won't be able to finish the job that Obama started.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

infamous “red line” warning in 2012 against Syria’s use of chemical weapons against rebel forces

Yup...once again!

There they are...Sodom's chemical "weapons of mass destruction" hauled to Syria, and about which; the RATs, the RATagandists and the UN all screamed...."Bush lied people died"

(of course over half a million died under Barky and Bitch...and nary a word)

[unread]

“There is no doubt [President Obama] will be hammered in historical terms..."

Yeah...Jimmy Carter is sleeping a whole lot better nowadays....

[Southack]

What’s up with the article’s Fake News lie that Obama was “hands off”??

Obama has U.S. SpecOps on the ground fighting in Syria against Assad.