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Obama ****** up by not paying enough attention to the Syrian revolution. Trying to play both sides of the fence. Secretly supplying the rebels while not taking a firm stance on AL Asad. The rebels lost and what happened...ISIS.
The whole reason why Obama's been getting second guessed and criticized by former admin officials recently is because he hesitated to arm the rebels earlier on in the conflict when it would've had the biggest impact for the situation on the ground. The reason they were hesitant was because they had no idea which groups had the best intentions in relation to US interests in the region while his secretary of State/Defense and his generals were calling on him to arm the more "moderate" groups in the opposition. As a result of not arming them,the momentum on the battlefield began to swing towards the more extremist groups among the opposition which laid the groundwork for IS's offensive earlier this year.
Now just a few months ago, the US and other Western nations finally officially started to fund and train different "moderate" groups with their own people and money to make sure that they're looking out for their interests. This is on top of also helping out the Kurdish Peshmerga with arms shipments/equipment/air support.
All that air power isn't gonna mean squat unless you have some sort of feasible fighting force on the ground and the coalition nations have so far ruled that out, which is why they're pushing to make allies on the ground.
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