The New York Times: Reports " BEIRUT, Lebanon — Secretary of State John Kerry was clearly exasperated, not least at his own government. Over and over again, he complained to a small group of Syrian civilians that his diplomacy had not been backed by a serious threat of military force, according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by The New York Times. "
Lets Get Real:
The fault line of the Middle East runs through the Obama Oval Office, this blog has lost county of how many US Defence Secretaries the President Obama has gone through, he came into office thinking he was God's gift to International Politics, no one was brave enough to tell he was a Chicago Pol who got lucky, with the the near economic collapse in 2008. Thus in 2011 Obama removed the final US troops from Iraq, this allowed for the birth Daesh and the need to send troops back in Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi attack on Mosul will take more US troops, thus the new US President will face the same problems as Obama faced in 2008 but worse, the US will be needed to make sure that the various sectors of Iraqi society do not fall in to Civil War, and then there is Syria, the answer to Syria has this blogger lost, whatever solution is it will be the lesser evil.