I admit to being an amateur about foreign policy.

It would be ridiculous for me to suggest otherwise.

My feeling about the contrast between Saudi Arabia and Syria is that the leader of a country who systematically tortures and murders his own people for rebelling, who has already brought tendencies in that direction to their worst realization and has laid waste to his nation to maintain his dictatorship, cannot remain in power with the acquiescence of the rest of the world.

Several countries are working with Russia to figure out how to resolve the conflict in Syria.  Russia is guilty of aiding a dictator, Mr. Assad, and of turning the war in Mr. Assad's favor, and yet Russia can't be dismissed and has to be negotiated with.

If what Senator Warren and other critics of the Trump administration are saying is that the United States in Saudi Arabia is playing the part of Russia in Syria, it seems to me that's not entirely accurate.

If what those critics are saying is that Saudi Arabia should have no involvement in the reconstruction of a post-free-election Syria other than to pony up cash, all I can say is Good Luck on selling that idea to the Saudis.