If Barack Obama ever had a strategy for Syria, it’s been turned on its head

If Barack Obama ever had a strategy for Syria, it’s been turned on its head 

Syria is going down as the US president’s most serious, tragic, far-reaching and long-lasting foreign policy failure. Recent American cooperation with Russia in the United Nations over chemical weapons use in Syria will do little to erase the fact that the war is grinding on, entering its fifth year with a death toll of around a quarter of a million people, more than 10 million people displaced or refugees, and far-reaching consequences for international security.