For a president who wanted to leave the Middle East behind so that he could focus on other pressing issues-such as the much-publicised 'rebalancing' to the Asia-Pacific-Barack Obama wasn't dealt the best of hands. However, in the case of Syria, a country which has suffered horren-dously for the last four years-over 250,000 people have died, some 4 million have fled the country and over 7 million are internally displaced-Washington has displayed an incredible lack of leadership and resolve, compounded with the execution of poor policy.
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