While many are baffled by Obama's seemingly incoherent policy on Syria, it makes more sense if one looks at it through the prism of what has guided his foreign policy all along:  setting the stage for coercing Israel into accepting a Saudi-style "peace" deal with the Palestinian Arabs. The problem for Obama in the case of Syria, however, is that this point of policy reference led him into a no-win policy quagmire.  The implications of his failure here go well beyond Syria.