CatBus said:
The most he could muster was attempting to order a cruise missile attack on Syrian military facilities, but because he sought permission from Congress, that also led to nothing. The only thing he really did was provide fairly meager support for refugees trying to escape that war, which only looks generous in contrast with today. But he did it only because there’s no real downside for the US to resettle Syrian refugees.

There was no reason to be at war with Syria at all. If Obama had not been arming, funding, and training terrorists in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian regime for God knows what purpose, there would be no civil war. There would be no Islamic State.

CatBus said:But he did it only because there’s no real downside for the US to resettle Syrian refugees.

There is downside, obviously. Look at how the Trumpkins treat foreigners. This is not a phenomenon that is unique to our time, as there have been similar political movements like the American Party in the generation before the U.S. Civil War. I’m all for resettling Syrian refugees here or any country where they can find peace and live safe and productive lives, but this idea that the United States or the U.K. or anywhere has an endless tolerance for accepting people with open arms is not only misguided, but in the long run it is destructive. Populist forces will now attempt to disrupt our lives and snuff out the lives of many of these immigrants and refugees. It’s simply not enough to blame the populists and call them evil xenophobes, when the moderates created the mess by means of their poor policies in the first place.