Grading Obama’s Middle East Strategy (Sensibly): Part II: Syria
... in violence and lethality. Foreign Shiite militias joined the Iranian government’s and Lebanese Hezbollah’s well-trained ... ... 2012 the CIA began helping U.S. allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar vet and identify rebels moderate enough to recommend them ... ... publicly by several major Western governments (including that of the United States), Human Rights Watch, and later by the United Nations.... ... burden as a result of the conflict—none more so than Iraq as ISIS broke off from al-Qaeda and proceeded to shock the world with ...