U.S. rules out normalizing ties with Syria's Assad

Israel still calling the shots in US foreign policy....Blinken... stooge!

As always, the truth is more nuanced. Read and learn please.

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-syria

I highly doubt that the Dept of state's site is a source of truth in this case.

One wonders sometimes if Bashir Assad ever regrets taking his father's place as the leader of Syria and longs for his old life as an opthamologist in London? Too late now but still one wonders about these things.

The American plan to overthrow the legitimate government failed, no wonder they are pissed.

As always, the truth is more nuanced. Read and learn please.

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-syria/

And for a different take on the matter (one I am still chewing on and not necessarily in agreement with)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/unfounded-alarm-about-relations-syria-195026

The old Confucian concept of Yin-Yang is applicable to much of our world. Nothing is pure black or pure white, pure good or pure bad and the boundary between them is wavy and indistinct. The world is ruled by ambiguity.

If Americans are unhappy with Assad they always can console themselves with their best buddies Saudis, renowned for their rich democratic and tolerant traditions.

I wondered about the timing of this article.

From Paul R. Pillar at The National Interest:

Arab states have been gradually restoring or expanding relations with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, and some commentators in the United States are very unhappy

about that . . . Each writer reviews and excoriates the Assad regime’s record of brutality— about which there can be no dispute— and criticizes the Biden administration for quietly acquiescing in the business that regional states have been doing with Syria, even though the United States is making no move of its own toward restoring relations with Damascus.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/unfounded-alarm-about-relations-syria-195026

Assad has crushed opposition through brute force and an alliance with Russia and Iran

The American plan to overthrow the legitimate government failed, no wonder they are pissed.