THE POTUS BHO WHO PLAYS WITH FIRE WITHOUT A FOREIGN POLICY BUT A POLICY WITH AN AGENDA TO FIT THE LEFTIST WORLD THAT CATERS TO TERRORIST AS DISPLAYED IN THE EGYPT REVOLUTION AND LIBYA AND SYRIA–THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO WHO HAS NO CLEAR DEFINITION OF HOW TO DEFEND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE BUT HAVE CLAIMED MISSION ACCOMPLISHED AGAINST TERROR GETS BITTEN BY ISIS AFTER BURYING HIS DEMOCRAT HEAD IN THE SAND KNOWING WELL WE HAVE ENEMIES WHO HATES AMERICANS TO THE POINT OF BEHEADING

What a difference a year makes. Around this time last year, the West was gearing up for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was accused of carrying out chemical weapons attacks on his own people. That intervention never came to pass, not least because domestic public opinion in countries such as Britain and the United States was opposed to further entanglements in the Middle East.

Now, the U.S. is contemplating extending airstrikes on Islamic State militants operating in Iraq in Syria — fighters belonging to a terrorist organization that is leading the war against Assad. The Islamic State's territorial gains in Iraq and continued repression and slaughter of religious minorities there and in Syria have rightly triggered global condemnation. "I am no apologist for the Assad regime," Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, told NPR. "But in terms of our security, [the Islamic State] is by far the greatest threat."

The irony of the moment is tragic. But to some, it doesn't come as much of a surprise. Many cautioned against the earlier insistence of the Obama administration (as well as other governments) that Assad must go, fearing what would take hold in the vacuum.

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