Brooks: Obama ‘Sat by’ and Let the ‘Genocide’ in Syria ‘Happen’

WOODRUFF: "Mark — I mean, David, how do you see the president coming to this effort?"
BROOKS: "Listen, nobody feels good sitting by while genocide happens and doing nothing, and that’s essentially what he’s been doing. I know Bill Clinton has said many times since he left office his greatest regret was allowing the genocide in Rwanda to happen. And Barack Obama, for good reasons or bad, has sat by while a slow-rolling genocide has happened in Syria. And it could have been prevented when people within his own administration were urging action very early in ways that maybe could have made a difference. But he sat by and let it happen. Again, maybe America had no choice. But we did nothing. And so it’s hard to feel good about the American role in Syria over the past five or seven years. And if you don’t feel good about it, it’s hard to wax poetic and self-righteous about it."