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Assad’s Fall Has Humiliated Washington
Eli Lake
December 9, 2024

According to President Joe Biden, the end of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny in Syria was made possible by his administration’s foreign policy. Speaking from the White House on Sunday in a televised address, he said, “For years the main backers of Assad have been Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia, but over the last week their support collapsed, all three of them, because all three of them are far weaker today than they were when I took office.” Try not to laugh…This isn’t just a deceptive telling of recent history. Biden has it backward. While it’s true that Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia are weaker today than they were when Biden was inaugurated as president, it’s not because Biden had the foresight to unleash the Jewish state against America’s enemies in the Middle East. It’s because Israel defied Biden’s efforts to restrain it. READ MORE

FDD Clifford May: Assad exits and Khamenei’s strategy unravels Mr. Assad has reportedly fled to Moscow. You’ll note he did not choose to relocate to Tehran, where his wife, Asma, might have had to drape herself in a burqa…The defeat of the dynastic Syrian dictator, responsible for the slaughter of half a million of his countrymen and the displacement of millions more, deserves celebration, as does the cracking of Mr. Khamenei’s imperialist, settler-colonialist project. But in our world, there are no permanent victories. Remember the excitement over the Arab Spring? And who did not think that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia would have decent governments?