Yes. Giving cause for Assad to call in Iran and Russia and creating a dysfunctional state in most of Syrian territory, took an Eastern Mediterranean security situation for western interests, made it worse, and made meeting present conditions FAR, FAR more difficult and complicated than was just maintaing the status quo without the “Syrian opposition” regime change agenda.
Should have left Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Idiots in the EU and here. Qaddafi warned the dumb Euroweenies what would happen if we took him out and he was right.