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“Assaad never did a thing to this country.”

BS. He provided material, logistical, training, resupply, staging and volunteers for Al Qaeda-in-Iraq (AIQ) insurgents up until our departure. He is responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of US casualties.

There would have been no Iraqi insurgency without Assads assistance and support of Sunni insurgents. After we left AIQ morphed into ISIS and set its sights on a global caliphate. Assad sowed the seeds of his own destruction. I have no pity for either. We’ve been aligned against both ISIS and Assad since 2004.

“Weâ€™ve been aligned against both ISIS and Assad since 2004.”

And to what effect. This has been an incompetent cluster of bad decisions and worse execution.

Who’s running this? Susan Rice?

"BS. He provided material, logistical, training, resupply, staging and volunteers for Al Qaeda-in-Iraq (AIQ) insurgents up until our departure. He is responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of US casualties."

It looks like al Qaeda didn't get your memo

The leader of al-Nusra Front - the al Qaeda-affiliate group in Syria - insisted on Wednesday that he is under orders from the organization's central leadership not to attack Western interests in Syria, but rather focus on toppling President Bashar al-Assad.

After a two-year siege, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria and other insurgents on Wednesday captured the one remaining Syrian army air base in Idlib, a development that activists said effectively expelled the last of President Bashar al-Assad's military from the northwestern province.

The regime has dismissed allegations of collusion as propaganda, claiming that it is the biggest victim of al-Qaeda attacks-and that despite all the accusations, no one has produced solid proof. Both groups call for the overthrow of the Assad regime, but ISIS has made it clear that it sees the establishment of an Islamic caliphate as a priority, and is spending more efforts protecting its territorial gains from rival rebel groups than attacking regime targets.

wrong on many fronts

For beginners Assad is not a sunni, is not a friend of Sunni’s, Turkey or Saudia Arabia, home of al Qaeda (which is why they all want to kill him) and the younger Assad, since being elected 3 times since 2000, has followed his father Hafez al-Assad’s long time path of being aligned with Iran

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator John Kerry engaged in “parallel diplomacy” in contradiction of the Bush WH policy of treating Syria as a state sponsor of terror, and Pelosi and Kerry each with delegations visited Bashar al Assad in 2007, calling him a “reformer”

ISIS split from al Qaeda and emerged from Iraq and set its sights on a global caliphate when the seeds of Arab Spring were sowed by Barack Obama following a speech in Cairo, a major policy shift by the WH to embrace the muslim brotherhood and an apparent strategic policy decision to back sunni extremism as an mode of toppling secular regimes held together by strongmen like Qadaffi, Mubarak and Assad

Hence we have NOT been “aligned against ISIS”, we have tolerated or abetted them as a tool of destruction aimed at Assad and a counterweight to the Shia govt in Iraq and Iran

Egypt and Assad did not fall as they were expected to do

You are totally wrong. Not one word was true. If you think Bashaar Al Asaad “trained Al Queda” You are a liar or you are stupid. Idiot!! You must me a Mc Cain Jack Ass.