'Obama's Friends'

The civil war in Syria began in 2011, during the Obama administration. President Obama expressed U.S. support for the Sunni rebels fighting against the Assad regime and declared that the Syrian leader must go. In 2012, he started secretly providing non-lethal assistance to the rebels through the CIA, and by 2013, he began supplying them with lethal weapons. Many critics questioned the wisdom of Obama’s policy to intervene in a sectarian civil war, arguing that there was little knowledge about who the rebels were and that they could be even worse than Assad. These critics warned that the arms provided to the rebels could end up in the hands of Sunni extremists. Now that the Assad regime has been toppled, and Obama has achieved his goal, was his policy ultimately the right approach? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #293.