With the mercy killing yesterday of the half billion dollar program to train Syrian rebels, an effort Rick Moran correctly labeled an “epic fail,” President Obama’s entire Syria policy is a fiasco.  Even the New York Times admits the training program was “a central piece of President Obama’s strategy for confronting extremists in Syria.” Syria, the country where Obama drew his “red line” and then failed to enforce it, has become the embodiment of the collapse of what Obama fauously called his “smart diplomacy.” Russia’s Putin is realizing a dream that goes back more than half a century, to make Russia the dominant force in the Middle East, where the world still gets a huge share of its oil. With air and naval bases being established in Syria, and acting in a de facto alliance with Iran and Iraq, Russia will be in a position to act in ways that help it and harm us. President Obama airily claims that Russia...(Read Full Post)