A Compilation of Relevant Posts on Syria

I had posted last month about the Syrian civil war in The Obama Administration Has Waited Too Long to Act Against the Syrian Regime, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-obama-administration-has-waited-too.html.  The purpose of this post is to provide a compilation of the most significant posts in which I have commented either on the Syrian civil war or explained the strategic threat to the United States and its allies posed by Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.

I had posted about the Syrian civil war in Foreign Digest: Cambodia, Haiti, Falkland Islands, Iran and Syria, in February of 2012 http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2012/02/foreign-digest-cambodia-haiti-falkland.html about the brutality of Syria’s Assad regime toward its citizenry and the lack of United Nations action against it.  I complained in Foreign Digest: Liberia, Iran, The European Monetary Union, in May of that year http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2012/05/foreign-digest-liberia-iran-european.html about the dithering of the world in regard to Syria.  In Romney Correctly Identifies Obama’s Weakness in Foreign Affairs, in October of 2012, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2012/10/romney-correctly-identifies-obamas.html, I criticized United States President Barack Obama’s failure to lead adequately against Syria.  Obama has imposed some economic sanctions and trained some of the rebels and provided them some materiel, but these actions have been ineffective in deterring Syria from indiscriminately killing its civilians with conventional or even chemical weapons, let alone in overthrowing the regime and replacing it with one that is neither a sponsor of international terrorism nor an ally of Iran.

I have posted repeatedly about I call the “Axis of Rogues.”  I first specifically identified Syria as part of the “Axis of Rogues” in Terrorism-Sponsoring Dictator Hugo Chavez Dies, in March of 2013, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2013/03/terrorism-sponsoring-dictator-hugo.html, in which I observed Venezuela’s alliance with Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.  As I noted in my last post on this subject, Syria would even have qualified as an original member of the Axis of Evil.

More generally, I have posted numerous times about the threat faced to the West from militant Islam in all its forms. 

In my next post, I shall explain the numerous significant American interests currently at stake in Syria.