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| Smoke and fire rises after explosives were dropped by a Syrian government warplane in Yabroud near Damascus, Syria / AP |
The Obama administration’s tepid and ambivalent response to the Syrian revolution was under the microscope at a panel discussion of a potential no fly zone in Syria at the United States Institute of Peace on Wednesday morning.
The Obama administration is making a false comparison between the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, said Ambassador Frederic Hof, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, who formerly worked in the State Department on Syria. As a result of that false comparison, it is very hesitant to get involved in Syria.
“Let’s consider what’s going on right now. Let’s consider what’s staring us in the face,” Hof said. “A country being utterly laid waste by a family regime well known for its corruption, its incompetence, and its brutality, fully supported by Iran and Hezbollah, fully enabled by Russia.”.........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Obama's tepid response to Syrian conflict highlighted | Washington Free Beacon
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