Sunday, October 04, 2015  What's Happening in Syria  Back from a
long break from blogging. We'll see how often I keep updating
but this one is fairly important and I want to go on the record
so that I at least have the satisfaction of gloating later.  To
many people, President Obama's policy on Syria has been
puzzling. He really has no policy except to hope that things
turn out better on their own. Part of this is his conviction
about "being on the wrong side of history" and is aversion to
boots on the ground, especially after he bragged about bringing
the troops home.  As I write this, the Russians have entered
Syria, promising to aid the fight against ISIS (or ISIL or the
Islamic State) but their air strikes seem to be doing more harm
to rebels apposing Assad than to ISIS.  So, here in a nutshell
is what's been going on:  For most of his presidency, Obama
pinned his hopes of a major foreign relations accomplishment on
a nuclear proliferation agreement with Iran. He unwisely let
Iran know how important this