Obama's hopeless approach to Syria

Israel Matzav: Obama's hopeless approach to SyriaAs for Syria and Iran, their strategic separation makes sense in geopolitical concept. But in practice their ties won’t easily be severed. Mr. Assad’s sectarian Allawite regime fears its own Sunni people and massacred them by the thousands in the 1980s. Maintaining close ties to Shiite Hezbollah and Shiite Iran are key elements to Mr. Assad’s strategy of political survival. Unlike Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in the 1970s, Mr. Assad has given no signs of wanting to engage Israel on equal terms and still shelters the leader of Hamas in Damascus. We wonder what the Obama Administration can offer that would change that fundamental calculus.
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