Is the US this naive, or is it feigning naivety?

In recent days an article titled the Obama Doctrine appeared in The Atlantic magazine by Jeffry Goldberg, a journalist so close to the White House that he can be called a White House journalist. The article is based on an account, most of it attributed to Obama himself, resulting from Goldberg's long interviews with Obama.

The words attributed to Obama in the article, especially regarding his Middle East policy, are bound to create a new wave of disappointment concerning the US's Middle East policy.

In his remarks, Obama, who also makes assessments about actors in the Middle East, complained that some leaders, Erdoğan among them, did not support him as he wanted.

Truly, whoever supported the policies he voiced would be supporting a complete imprudence, lack of vision, or a policy knowingly dragged toward suicide.

For Erdoğan to give the support that Obama expects from him, he would have to have given up his own country, his own people.

For what is understood is plainly this: Obama's Syria policy is a policy influenced by the simplest gossip, one in which no day matches the next

. To call it a policy would require a thousand witnesses; it is plainly a lack of policy. This policylessness is one of the most important causes of Syria's sinking deeper every day into a civil war crisis. For this reason, this policylessness is responsible for the nearly 500 thousand deaths so far and the refugees and displacement reaching 12 million.

According to the article,

"Obama conveyed that the turning point in his change of view on ISIS was the fall of Mosul in June 2014 and the beheading of 3 Americans in Syria. While US intelligence failed to foresee the fall of Mosul, after the killed Americans, defeating ISIS became a more urgent matter for Obama than overthrowing Assad."

The strongest possibility we can draw from this chain of events is that in the Syria trap the US has simply become the plaything of a dictator like Assad, and that Obama and the entire American intelligence, without even noticing so simple a maneuver, immediately took the bait of the line Assad cast. The strange part is that, according to what the same article relays, Obama himself has acknowledged that in the situation we have reached the fight against ISIS has only served Assad. In other words, a knowingly-walking-into-it situation. Here either Obama is taking the world for fools or he is truly very naive.

With all due respect, may they not expect us to believe they are so naive.

This much naivety and idiocy can only come about by planning. Let them now give up telling the world that they themselves are this stupid and taking everyone for fools. That, putting it down to naivety, he states that despite knowing the current fight against ISIS has served Assad's purposes he has no intention of any revision in this policy, and indeed that overall he is satisfied with the US's Middle East policy, shows once again how untrustworthy US policy is. Let us also say that these words are nothing other than an admission that they now have an indisputable share in every drop of blood spilled in Syria.

The US, still knowing that it serves Assad and that it is the line Assad has cast before it, keeps the fight against ISIS

above everything. So much so that because it is fighting ISIS, it regards the YPG and PYD, again founded, supported and run by Assad, as its allies and acts together with them.

The US allies with one of two organizations that Assad founded and currently runs while fighting the other. Everyone sees what this picture does to US policy; is it only the US's legendary intelligence, the CIA, that does not see it?

I think the secret of the continuity of US hegemony up to now lies here:

It has been able to sell even its most blatant lies to the world as truth by an insolent fait accompli of "you will swallow it."

Under this spoiled hegemony people anyway have no luxury of not swallowing these lies.

According to the article, we learn once again that Erdoğan, of whom Obama complains, displayed an attitude of not surrendering to this idiotic fabrication.

Good morning, Obama: even if everyone swallows it, Erdoğan will not swallow such a policy that takes everyone for fools, and will expose the fraudulence of the fabrication to the whole world.

It will again be Turkey under Erdoğan's leadership that extinguishes the fire kindled by this policy that takes the whole world for naive idiots. Still, it is worth asking: why is the US entering into such a game that sets even its historical allies against it and upends all balances in the Middle East? Who comes out ahead in this game, who loses? These questions do not have such flat answers as supposed, but we have run out of space; let us leave the details to tomorrow.