President Obama has created an opening for this Russian intervention by minimizing U.S. interests in the outcome of Syrias civil war. He has refused to offer more than token help to proWestern Syrians. thus ceding the battleground to radical Islamists or the AssadRussiaIranHezbollah axis. Dont expect a decline in the flow of refugees anytime soon. Just a few months after the revolution in Syria began in 2011. President Obama issued his Presidential Study Directive stating: "Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States." He went on to say: "Our security is affected when masses of civilians are slaughtered. refugees flow across borders. and murderers wreak havoc on regional stability and livelihoods." In 2013. President Obama. speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. said: "Too often. the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale.
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