shyt, if she continues her push to close Guantanamo Bay, pushes for more UN work in North Africa and works for greater clean0energy involvement (making sure to highlight the job growth coming from this sector), she could boost her popularity a lot. Syria is tricky, because she could easily fall into the trap her husband did and "ignore it" thereby making her a target of international disappointment, or she could make the same mistakes Bush did and go all in with boots on the ground, she needs to tread lightly, because there a hell of a lot of good decisions she could make that would damn near cement reelection for her, and there are some terrible decisions she could make that could land her in a tribunal.
With Syria, The FSA seemed genuine, even with western support, and till 2012 there was a semblance or even an illusion of unity of command in the militias.
Then, Assad helped unleashed the psychos from prison, so they can attack the FSA,
and he cooperated with the satanist ISIS, helping them sell oil and getting a cut of the profits.
The problem is that Assad finished off the FSA, there is no FSA today it is an insignifigant group. Who can Hillary work with on the ground that's not Al Qaeda?
Today, its a choice between Assad and Al Nusra/Ahrar Al Sham and affiliates.
Outside of the core Sunni Iraqi Baathist group in Mosul the rest of ISIS are a herd of wild non-sentient animals.
As an outsider there's only oneside that can bring peace and stability to the country.
The only side that has a roadmap for peace is the Assad Regime. Obama and Kerry despite the rhetoric know this and have been resisting the neocons for the last couple years.
The Russians and Iranians have forced Assad to acknowledge that there cannot be a return to dictatorship, there will be sharing of power and elections, and Assad will have to step down.
The problem is that the otherside believes in total victory and see no need for negotiations, even when they are close to defeat themselves.
Aleppo will continue to be encircled, the supply lines in the north are almost gone,
the Jordanians have been intimidated and only supply enough to show their masters that they are obeying orders, but its a trickle compared to 6 months ago, and not nearly enough.
The supply of jihadis is shrinking rapidly, the supply of petrol/deisel/ammo is critical.
Without the Turkish supply highway all those "accidental airdrops" from the US cannot save the rebels.
Hillary cannot save Al Nusra Front or any of the rebel groups, the situation is strategically untenable.
The Beacon Global Strategies people, her too candidates for DOD Secretary and DOS Secretary are blowing lots of hot air about air strikes against Assad.
They really think that Russia with their S400s monitoring the skies aren't going to interfere?