After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the wests defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn't.
In 2011, Obama led the west in its largest adventure yet in west Asia, thinking that Syria looked like just another domino about to fall in the whirlwind of uprisings sweeping the Middle East. Ten years later, President Bashar Assad is still there leading the heroic SAA which eliminated western-backed Daesh terrorism from more than 70 percent of the country as reconciliation and reconstruction define the upcoming decade for Syria.
President Bidens foreign policy already seems stuck in the militarist quagmire of the past twenty yearsa far cry from his campaign promise to reinvigorate diplomacy as the primary tool of U.S. foreign policy. In this respect, Bidens approach on Syria shows hes following in the footsteps of former Presidents Obama and Trump, who both promised fresh approaches to foreign policy but for the most part delivered more endless wars.