Drawing the red line was a childish expressin. Should never have been uttered.
Assad was and is our ally. We need more dictators in the region, specifically our dictators.
Assad is not and never was our ally, that said he was not our enemy and making him our enemy only benefits other enemies of ours.
That the US government actually has a Syria policy is news to me. I thought the closest thing we had to a policy in the Mid-East was paralysis by analysis.