The killing of an American contractor in eastern Syria by an Iranian drone — and the embarrassing tit-for-tat precision strikes by the U.S. followed by retaliatory strikes that injured several service members — has put Syria back into the national conversation, to the Biden administration’s chagrin.
After all, it was the Obama-Biden administration that created today’s Syria, abandoning both its policy of “Assad must go” and its ultimatum of a “red line.” It likely made these actions as concessions to the Iranian regime it sought to bring into what became the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal.
Syria today remains a complex mess and is the site of a civil war whose tragic humanitarian toll over more than a decade is unspeakable. Its brutality is unmatched in any other part of the world, and it […]
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