So, just so I got this straight...

[politicman]

78. I am in extreme disagreement with your view.

I call bullcrap on your comment.

If the U.S had of helped get rid of Assad right after the uprising began, then the moderate elements in Syrian Rebels would have been the dominant force their.
Exactly because Assad was allowed to indiscriminately bombard and slaughter Sunni's all over the country without any intervention from the West, many many moderate Sunni's started to radicalise thus the reason why extremists in Syria overtook the moderate forces in strength.

Also, Iraq has a majority Shia population and they were helped to power by Bush's disastrous 2003 invasion.
In Syria, you have a majority Sunni population who is oppressed by a minority Shia (Alawi) dictator.


So naturally when Sunni's in the region and around the world see America using force to give the Shia majority power in Iraq WHILST deciding to not use power to give the Sunni majority power in Syria, they start to think the West is taking sides in the Sunni/Shia religious war thus they radicalise and ISIS and Nusra are borne and grow.

Bush's war in 2003 should never have happened and it created the problems we have now, but one way to solve the problem was to restore the balance of power in that region, namely if the U.S was responsible for the Sunni losing power in Iraq due to being a minority, then the U.S should have also should have followed through by helping to restore Sunni power in Syria due to them being in the majority there. Obama should have restored the balance of power as a way to fix Bush's colossal mistake.