Does anybody believe him anymore? What the President has failed to understand for nearly 5 years is that unless and until he leads an international effort to end the conflict in Syria and Iraq. the costs of this conflict will continue to mount. Those consequences have grown steadily. from mass atrocities and hundreds of thousands of dead in Syria. to the repeated use of weapons of mass destruction. to the rise of the worlds largest terrorist army and its rampage across Syria and Iraq. to destabilizing refugee flows that have shaken the stability of Syrias neighbors and are now potentially changing the character of European society. Now we see the latest manifestation of this threat: global terrorist attacks directed and inspired by ISIL that killed hundreds around the world. The Paris attacks. obviously. should be a wakeup call for all Americans. most of all for the President.