»How the War Party Lost the Middle East«

... betitelt sich ein eindringlicher Artikel von Pat Buchanan über das geopolitische Desaster, das die Washingtoner »War Party« angerichtet hat:

"Assad must go, Obama says."

So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011.

The story quoted President Barack Obama directly:

"The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. . . . the time has come for President Assad to step aside."

France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's David Cameron signed on to the Obama ultimatum: Assad must go!

Seven years and 500,000 dead Syrians later, it is Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron who are gone. 

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Lesenswert bis zum Schluß, wo Buchanan noch eine süffisante Korrektur an einem Seitenhieb der NYT auf Trump anbringt:

In Monday's editorial celebrating major figures of foreign policy in the past half-century, The New York Times wrote, "As these leaders pass from the scene, it will be left to a new generation to find a way forward from the wreckage Mr. Trump has already created."

Correction: Make that "the wreckage Mr. Trump inherited."

Chapeau! Touché!