The true disaster for the region is that the United States does not want to change its stripes ... What used to be good for the United States and its strategic ally, the Israeli occupying entity, is no longer good today.
This prisoner swap has shown the terrorists from al-Qaida and other groups that the best way to free their imprisoned fighters is to kidnap Americans and other foreigners and exchange them.
There is a general feeling that the option of military intervention in Syria is no longer on the agenda for the Western powers, particularly the United States.