Intel: Why the US is backing off ousting Assad

[TomSea]

Intel: Why the US is backing off ousting Assad
Al-Monitor Staff

Testifying in the House Foreign Affairs Committee today, US envoy for Syria engagement Jim Jeffrey said the Donald Trump administration's policy in Syria "is not regime change," but an "irreversible political process which will change the nature and behavior of the Syrian regime."

Why it matters: Jeffrey’s comments are an indication that the US may not move to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, even though the United Nations-backed Geneva peace talks — which the former US ambassador to Turkey was hired in August to resuscitate — seek to reunify the country with national elections.

"We do not have an official position on any personality except that Assad is the worst person to rule any place,” Jeffrey said when pressed by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., on whether the US administration is committed to pushing Assad out in a future election. "We cannot imagine the bulk of the population voting for that individual.”

Continued at: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/11/intel-us-backing-off-ousting-assad-syria.html

[Absalom]

Brainless policy championed by jackasses.
Persuade the French to re-assert their turn
of the century role in Syria and in the interim
put a bullet in the back of Assad's head!!!