Syria and Iraq

It was about two years ago when Syria exploded with a civil war. About one year into the war, President Obama concluded that Syrian leader Assad must go but he was reluctant to take military action to help the people who were challenging the government. At that time it looked like the people were winning and Assad would soon be deposed. Then Iran and Russia stepped and started providing aid to Assad and in the past year he was able to recover and now seems to be winning. During this past year many outside forces joined in the fight against Assad and many of these are terrorist types and now the United States is reluctant to help since it is not clear who these foreign fighters are. All this has now spilled over into Iraq and some of these same terrorist are threatening the government of Iraq. In The President’s speech he said he has been aware of this problem for about 14 months and now he is trying to decide what if any action to take. The President is aware that the people of the United States are war weary and thus his hesitancy. If he decides to use force in Syria and/or Iraq, the problems he will face have been exacerbated by the delay.