Ishmael
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Assad has iron-fist rule in Syria for a reason. The U.S. needs to ally with him to take on ISIS.
This is as good a place to start as any.
It's not going to happen. Obama would have to step up and admit that his policy re. Syria was fucked up from the start and he isn't going to do that. (Anymore than he took credit for the fuck ups in Egypt, Iraq, and Libya.)
The military sent drones over Syrian territory and Assad warned the white house that any attacks on Syrian territory WITHOUT the coordination with Syrian forces would be considered an act of war. Essentially Assad has boxed Obama into either admitting the legitimacy of Assad's government or staying out of Syria altogether.
Meanwhile Assad has problems of his own. He's already fighting what amounts to a two front war. He's fighting the 'moderate' revolutionaries (the ones Obama backed) on one front and ISIL (the other ones Obama backed, albeit not truly knowing he was doing so) on the other. He doesn't have the strength of force to seriously concentrate on both and he dare not concentrate on one for fear the other will make gains.
Do to the nature of ISIL any military action will have to be coordinated with third parties in would be an anvil and hammer strategy. Meaning that Syria, the Kurds, and/or the Turks will have to be prepared to act as the anvil for any mobile force (Iraq?) that moves against ISIL. Air power isn't going to do diddly as far as ISIL is concerned, and Obama and his advisers are well aware of that fact. Because of the force structure and tactics of ISIL air power would only have maximum effect in a ground support role.
All of this is as a direct result of Obama's foreign policy and about the only thing that can be said on the positive side is we can all thank our lucky stars that the Egyptian military purged what was growing there and Obama had nothing to do with that, as a matter of fact he actually acted a little put out about it.
Ishmael
