Sanders backs Obama on ISIS

[Mr. Morden]

Sanders isn't creating any daylight on foreign policy between himself and Hillary Clinton.  He presumably wants to run a domestic policy-themed campaign:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/217383-sanders-backs-obama-plan-but-warns-of-risks

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[Mr. Morden]

So almost 2 years after she left the state department people are beginning to realise Hillary was right all along...

Right about what?  That intervening earlier, deposing Assad, and letting ISIS take Syria was the right course of action?  

Free Syrian Army does not equal ISIS.

Maybe not, but they clearly had a number of members who were jihadists, as evidenced by their killing of religious minorities and the fact that a bunch of then-FSA fighters have now defected to ISIS.

The FSA leader clearly stated they had no other goals except the removal of Assad.

http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/the-free-syrian-army-doesnt-exist/

[Mr. Morden]

Also:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-problem-with-bombing-isis-in-syria/379081/

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[Mr. Morden]

I'm a little confused here. It looks like Sanders was one of 22 nays on this.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00270

He was for it before he was against it?

[Mr. Morden]

I've posted this before, but here's a useful comment on the "Free Syrian Army" by a contributor to Joshua Landis's blog (Landis being a leading American Syria expert):

http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/the-free-syrian-army-doesnt-exist/