Goodbye, U.S. Foreign Policy

... Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an “animal”, following a suspected chemical attack in the country. Now, when American foreign policy is still disoriented, many agreed that, perhaps, Assad is the least evil for Syria. As Stephen Walt argues in Foreign Policy, “the best course of action today is for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to regain control over northern Syria”. Regardless of what one thinks of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, he stands in office irrespective of hectic U.S. motions. The American plan was to replace the incumbent with pro-American Juan Guaidó, even if this decision comes at the price of deploying 5,000 troops to the region. Nevertheless, having ...