Obama's Syrian Nightmare....Roger Cohen

[mystery-ak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/opinion/roger-cohen-obamas-syrian-nightmare.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=1

Obama's Syrian Nightmare

SEPT. 10, 2015

Syria will be the biggest blot on the Obama presidency, a debacle of staggering proportions. For more than four years now, the war has festered. A country has been destroyed, four million Syrians are refugees, Islamic State has moved into the vacuum and President Bashar al-Assad still drops barrel bombs whose shrapnel and chlorine rip women and children to shreds.

For a long time, those who fled waited in the neighborhood. They wanted to go home. They filled camps in Turkey and Jordan and Lebanon. When it became clear even to them that “home” no longer existed, nothing could stop them in their desperate flight toward the perceived security of Europe. The refugee crisis is the chronicle of a disaster foretold.

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[Bigun]

[aligncare]

The New York Times has been reading the tea leaves lately. I think I see pigs flying.

[flowers]

Nightmare or planned?