Like much of President Downgrade’s tenure the Syrian fiasco is one of insufferable consequences resulting from a ‘lead from behind’ strategy.

The window of opportunity for the U.S. to take action passed two years ago when the actual Syrian people, the ordinary freedom citizens, were crying out for help.  Over the course of the two years that followed those ordinary voices have been overrun by extremists who jumped into the vacuum created by a lack of action.

Now Syria has devolved into a brutal Assad regime being fought by an even more brutal group of al-Qaeda extremists, while supported by Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood elements.   The ordinary freedom movement is hiding amid destroyed homes, broken glass, and blood stained curtains.

Syria is Obama’s Iran 2.0 deja-vu.   In Iran 2009, the “Green Movement” suffered a similar fate to the ordinary Syrian seeking freedom.   President Obama ignored them both when the window was open – In Iran the Islamic iron gates locked down the opening, in Syria the same is taking place.

In a larger sense, the current Syrian situation is also reflective of liberal ideology on full display.  Liberals/Progs generally are more experienced in dealing with crisis;  Crisis they can create and then use as cover for poor decisions driven by urgency instead of thoughtful planning.   It is the ideological place of comfort for a movement without purpose other than to create crisis to manufacture a reason for their intervention.

Hence, progressive liberals, aka the modern day Fabian Socialists, are never actually standing for a specific principle.   They should be viewed as a spinning compass lacking any internal freedom direction.    Cue Dear Leader:

“We have evidence that there has been the use of chemical weapons inside Syria. But, I don’t make decisions based on ‘perceived.’ And, I can’t organize coalitions around ‘perceived.’ We tried that in the past, by the way, and it didn’t work out well.”