U.S. Needs a Syrian Reset

For months Mr. Kerry has been assuring the world that Syria’s epic carnage could be best addressed by peace negotiations in Geneva. Their purpose, he insisted, was “specifically and solely” to create a transitional government to replace the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, he and Mr. Obama repeatedly cited the Assad regime’s agreement to hand over its stocks of chemical weapons as mitigating the threat Syria’s civil war poses to U.S. interests.