“Three years of supporting any force that might overthrow the secular government of President Assad has produced a new monster in the Middle East that neocons insist the US must slay. Why can’t they just admit they were wrong? Why can’t the interventionists just admit that their support for regime change in Syria was a terrible and tragic mistake? If ISIS is as big a threat as they claim, why can’t they simply ask Assad to help out? Assad has never threatened the United States; ISIS has. Assad has been fighting ISIS and similar Islamist extremist groups for three years. Why does the US government insist on aligning with theocracies in the Middle East?”
http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35607/Ron-Paul-Obama-Has-No-Middle-East-Strategy-Good/