President Obama’s vanishing “red line” in Syria is only one of many political disasters afflicting almost every country with an interest in Syria.  The Syrian people are enduring hell, of course, and the Assad regime, facing a mortal threat, is staggering, although currently enjoying considerable momentum. Its Russian and Iranian backers have suffered considerable casualties and humiliations. So has Turkey, which is now starting to reverse itself and cozy up to the Assad regime. There is, however, one country that is coming out ahead. That would be Israel. Jim Dunnigan of Strategy Page makes the case: ...one of the only local powers to come out ahead is Israel. In theory everyone involved in the Syrian civil war (Islamic terrorists, the Syrian, government and Iran) should be fighting Israel. Instead they are killing each other and Israel stays out of it, expect to keep track of how many losses its many enemies are taking each month. So far it has been...(Read Full Post)