Biden Takes Credit for Syria Regime Change He Tried to Prevent
by Daniel Greenfield • December 12, 2024 at 5:00 am
There are lots of mostly bad things that President Joe Biden can justly take credit for, but the fall of Syria is not one of them.
Biden provided Iran with sanctions relief and bailed out Hezbollah just as it was on the verge of defeat. He's trying to take credit for other people's victories while pretending that this was a desired outcome, rather than Turkey taking the initiative and exploiting a weakened Hezbollah.
There are lots of mostly bad things that President Joe Biden can justly take credit for, but the fall of Syria is not one of them. The only real reason this happened is because Israel threw off the shackles and decided to go after Hezbollah after a year of terror. And Biden did everything to prevent that.
At the very end, he used an arms embargo to force Israel into a fake "ceasefire" with Hezbollah. But by then Israel had done enough damage to Hezbollah that Turkey's Jihadists were able to just roll into Syria, and Iran decided to sell them out and pull back.
But now Biden is trying to take credit.
