Biden Is Right to Take Credit for Enabling Assad’s Fall, But Is That a Good Thing?

Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Edward Hunt

“Officials in the Biden administration are taking credit for creating conditions in Syria that enabled opposition forces to overthrow the Syrian government. Now that opposition forces have ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, administration officials are insisting that longstanding U.S. policies, including actions taken by the Biden administration against Assad’s supporters, made the overthrow of the Syrian government possible. Administration officials deny that they aided Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the U.S.-designated terrorist organization that led the drive to overthrow Assad, but they insist that they facilitated the opposition’s victory, citing years of U.S. efforts to empower the opposition and weaken the Syrian government. Just as U.S. officials have claimed, the United States played a central role in creating the conditions that led to Assad’s ouster.” (12/18/24)

https://fpif.org/u-s-officials-take-credit-for-regime-change-in-syria/