Russia’s entry onto the Syrian battlefield was an avoidable development, a chess play to the game of checkers that has been US policy in the Middle East.As foreseeable as the lights of an oncoming train, Russia has doubled down on its sole Arab ally, Bashar Assad, and complicated enormously the US effort to counter both ISIS and the Syrian dictator.This week, within less than 48 hours of a meeting between President Obama and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the United Nations, the Russian Federation Council rubber-stamped the initiation of hostilities on Syrian territory. Moscow’s plan in Syria, notwithstanding the …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research