Israel Matzav: Obama's hopeless approach to Syria

Obama's hopeless approach to Syria

The Wall Street Journal gives several reasons why the Obama administration should drop its attempts to bring Syria in from the cold, but perhaps the most important reason is that Syria has nothing to offer in return.

As 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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Israel Matzav: Obama's hopeless approach to Syria