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Obama Managed to Make Syria a Lot Messier, Front Page Magazine, Daniel Greenfield, February 16, 2016

Obama and Kerry are frantically touting a Syria ceasefire as the solution to the conflict. In reality, they’ve made the conflict much worse.

While Hillary Clinton was talking up a No Fly Zone, Russia entered Syria and enforced its own de facto No Fly Zone against the United States. Their bombing campaign has boosted the Iran-Assad-Hezbollah axis while beating back Sunni militias backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

The Turks responded by shooting down a Russian jet. Obama threw in more anti-tank missiles. But a sustained bombing campaign does pay off. It’s what Obama refused to do against ISIS. But the Russians had no problem hitting Sunni opposition forces with one. They also don’t care about collateral damage. And while Obama and his proxies bleat about Russia being isolated and doomed, Putin set the terms of the proposed peace deal.

Obama’s willingness to switch to the side of the Shiite axis and accept them however only worsened the conflict for reasons ridiculously obvious to everyone outside the White House and the media.

The Saudis and Turkey are not about to lose this fight with Iran. Turkey is also worried about Kurdish gains. So they’re going to send ground troops to “fight ISIS”. Just like Iran and Russia are “fighting ISIS”.

Even in the best case scenario, this means the effective end of an independent Syria as it’s carved up under a Russian-Iranian-Turkish, etc occupation. Since Syria never really existed, that’s not too great of a loss. But in practice, it means that Syria will be divided into terrorist training camps for Shiite and Sunni terrorists, backed by friendly troops and jets from their allied states, which will sometimes also take shots at each other.

This may end up destroying ISIS by territorially squeezing it out. Or it may just escalate the already messy conflict and take it to a new level.

It’s hard to say to what extent this will represent a threat to the United States, aside from the general perception of weakness and impotence inflicted by Obama’s failed foreign policy. But if the conflict escalates, it could have all sorts of destructive implications. And obviously, Israel’s situation becomes more problematic. At the very least, we’re going to see Syria being turned into an even bigger terrorist production factory than it already was. And those terrorists won’t just stay in Syria, as we’ve already seen.

And the United States is likely to be dragged into this mess in a variety of ways from providing aid on the ground to peacekeeping to taking in refugees. And considering Turkey’s inappropriate place in NATO, we might end up even being dragged into an actual war.

That’s what Obama’s ceasefire looks like.

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