Hafiz Al-Assad

The majority of the airstrikes Russia had launch up till October 5, have been keyed in on rebel strong holds along the border of the Government controlled territory. The United States is also taking criticism over recently declassified pentagon papers that suggested that ISIL could be used to over throw Assad. This paper will analysis the history of the Syria, sections of the pentagon papers and review how United States foreign policy has failed handle the threat ISIL.
History of Syria’s Succession Hafiz al-Assad died on June 10, 2000 after 30 years of rule over Syria. Before Hafiz al-Assad, Syria had underwent 15 successful coups between 1949-1970. Al-Assad is credited for slowing down the disturbingly harsh domestic political disturbance
This resulted in the Ba’th party naming Bashar the only candidate for the national referendum and received 97% percent of the votes. It appears the reasons that the political elites of the Ba’th party wanted to keep control of the county at all cost by getting Bashar in power as quietly as possible in of going through a struggle for power. Joshua Stacher simply sums up the events on page 204:
Al-Assad patrimonial rule dominates the political landscape so entirely that even after his death, the senior elites in the ruling party, bureaucracy, military, and intelligence services do his bidding. They ensure hereditary succession and the establishment of a family’s ruling dynasty.
The stability of the political regime would last until 2011 when pro-democracy protest started to pop up within the country. In response the Security Forces would open fire on protesters and submit them to torture. It started a chain reaction with more taken up protest and demanding Bashar to resign however the Regime resorted to more force against the people and the country started to fall into a civil
So in essence, the Department of Defense suggested that making the bid for power in Syria a three person race would help over throw the Assad regime. The supporting power to the opposition The strategy was to have the Salafist principality to dig a strong hold into the eastern side of Syria to force the Assad regime to fight on multiple fronts to wear down the army fighting under him, which has happen up to this point. The amount of opposition that Assad left him with no other choice then to reach out to Putin for assistance on both fronts with the rebel and ISIL forces that the United States allowed to incubate within the country. This is putting the United States behind because the nation is allowing Russia to gain all of the influence and gain a foothold in the Middle East because they are activing looking to result the issue of