It's odd that this didn't get more attention. A major plank of the White House strategy on ISIS is that while they'll be giving all sorts of support to Iraq to defeat ISIS, they absolutely will not be doing anything that would help that awful man Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
The above is the Iraqi National Security Adviser in Damascus yesterday
explaining to a cheerful Bashar al-Assad all the things that Iraq will be doing to to defeat ISIS -- with the help of the White House strategy.
Photo: Syrian Arab News Agency, via Reuters.