The administration has sat on its hands despite the fact that the Assad regime is one of the most implacable U.S. adversaries in the Middle East. It is Iran’s closest ally; it supplies Iranian weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip for use against Israel. Since 2003 it has helped thousands of jihadists from across the Arab world travel to Iraq to attack American soldiers. It sought to build a secret nuclear reactor with the help of North Korea and destabilized the pro-Western government of neighboring Lebanon by sponsoring a series of assassinations.
Really, let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. We have a perfectly lovely outreach going on, here. We can't let downtrodden people get in the way. Did we let simple bloodshed against protesters get in our way of reaching out to Iran's Ahmadinejad? Heck no. Did we give up after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No! And we won't give up on Assad.
Silly Post editors! What is shameful is their lack of nuance in appreciating that one can only make peace with your enemies! Why, Syria under Assad is just a friend who has yet to be made. You know, don't you, that Secretarty Clinton said that some say (but not her, no way!) that Assad is a reformer. If we'd just give him a chance, he'll change. Really.
We're witnessing freaking, big-brained, smart diplomacy in action over Syria, and I'll be damned if I let a bunch of ink-stained wretches at the Post stain the purity and brilliance of hope and change applied on an international stage by highly credentialed Ivy Leaguers who know more about salad forks than you or I will ever appreciate.
Avert your eyes puny mortals! You shame America by even questioning the brilliance of The One's foreign policy! You. Are. Not. Worthy.
