I am dismayed at Obama saying that
The American people should understand that we could not have done more for the Syrian opposition. Doctors and engineers even if trained could not have faced the regime forces so arming them would not have made a difference. This is beyond bad faith, it is outright erroneous!
The armed Syrian opposition was formed when tens of thousands of soldiers and officers defected when ordered to shoot unarmed civilians chanting in the streets. They defected with their weapons and this is how the opposition got armed. They formed the Free Syrian Army but never got weapons or support from the West.
Then regional players started arming the religious movements and they started to win the battle over the Free Syrian Army rather than the regime forces who got reinforced by Russian and Iranian technical support and direct fighters influx by the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iraqi Shia militias.
Sorry Mr. President, you cannot change the truth to fit you.