Mick Hartley

And Roger Boyes in the Times (£) sums it up:

The great grey fox Zbig Brzezinski has Barack Obama dead to rights. “He doesn’t strategise,” says Jimmy Carter’s former security guru. “He sermonises.” As the revolt against Bashar al-Assad enters its sixth year, the price of the president’s preference for moral imperatives over effective military action is now clear to all: Obama has lost Syria. He has invited presidential historians to the White House for dinner: they should tell him that the desertion of the Syrians, and not the Iranian nuclear deal or the withdrawal from Afghan battlefields, will go down as his legacy.