The main beneficiary will be ISIL. which has fed off the ethnic and sectarian divisions fostered by the Assad regime. It is tragic. It is tragic. my fellow Americans. that we have reached this point. It is a Syrian conflict that has killed more than 200.000 people. created the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. spawned a terrorist army of tens of thousands. and now created a platform for a Russian autocrat to join with an Iranian theocrat to prop up a Syrian dictator. It did not have to be this way. But this is the inevitable consequence of hollow words. redlines crossed. tarnished moral influence. leading from behind. and a total lack of American leadership.