Krauthammer: Obama Imagines the Obama Deal Is His Legacy; It Is Not, Aleppo Is His Legacy

‘There was no response on the part of the west, no penalty whatsoever, even economic, coming from the United States’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "Obama imagines the Obama deal is his legacy. It is not. Aleppo is his legacy. History will remember this as a symbolism of the policy of retreat and the inevitable outcome. It’s not as if the civil war was going to go one way or other because of what the United States did. It was essentially in a equilibrium a year and a half ago when the Russians decided that their side — Assad was losing. The rebels were on the advance in Aleppo and elsewhere. He stepped in to rescue Assad. Then he saw there was no response on the part of the west, no penalty whatsoever, even economic, coming from the United States. He decided to drive the advantage. We are reduced now to getting speeches from our U.N. Spokesman, pleading, saying to the Iranians and Russians and to Assad, have you no shame, have you no pity? The answer is obvious, they have none. The only thing that could have stopped this ultimately would have been some kind of deterrent from the United States, warning from the United States to keep the Russians out. We didn’t. And now we have what we have."

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