20
Oct
2017
General Dempsey met with Obama four and a half years ago to agree on working with Russians to contain the Syrian civil war rather than conducting military strikes.
And four and a half years ago, General Dempsey went and met with Obama and said, we are not going to have a military strike from the air on Syria. We're going to work with the Russians to contain the civil war and end it. And then Assad will step down after elections in the future when the war is over.