A long New York Times story today details the quarrels and vicissitudes that have marked the Obama White House’s Syria policy over the last two and a half years.  Some senior officials wanted to arm the rebels to topple Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while others pushed back.

As has been previously reported, former CIA director David Petraeus was in the first camp, as was former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey. Samantha Power, at the time on Obama’s NSC staff and now ambassador to the U.N., also advocated arming the rebels.

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