The waning of U.S. power and influence that Syria has both laid bare and hastened is a development that the policy community has given little thought to, because it was not supposed to happen.
Bashar al-Assad won. IS It worth thinking about why the United States didn’t.
JULY 23, 2018, 9:21 AM
rlier this month, Syrian regime forces hoisted their flag above the southern town of Daraa and celebrated. Although there is more bloodletting to come, the symbolism was hard to miss. The uprising thatbeganin that town on March 6, 2011, has finally been crushed, and the civil war that has engulfed the country and destabilized parts of the Middle East as well as Europe will be over sooner rather than later. Bashar al-Assad, the man who wassupposedto fall in “a matter of time,” has prevailed with the help of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah over his own people.
Washington is too busy over the furour of the day to reflect on the fact that there are approximately 500,000 fewer Syrians today than there were when a group of boys spray-painted…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Whatever the consequences, as long as the US MIC loses, I’m good with that.
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Same here, Sha’Tara. The US couldn’t win a ground war if they tried – it’s a pity the American people are so overcome by jingoism they don’t see this.
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