Obama doesn't care about the war's effects on Syrians any more than the neocons do, and they care not at all. Obama's compassionate words for disadvantaged and poor people are, I believe, really fake and feigned posturing for political and other ends of his. If he really cared about ordinary people, would he have encouraged this civil war and the war in Ukraine? Would he have launched sanctions against Russia that are surely harming ordinary Russians? He and his advisers full well know that these sanctions have broadly negative economic effects, just as sanctions against Iraq and Iran have had.
-Michael Rozeff
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/obama-neocons-and-the-syrian-war/
They're all socialists - that's Obama and the Republicans.
Red