Syria was a failed Anglo-American regime change attempt

Jeffrey Sachs says that the uprising in Syria against Assad was another US regime change attempt. I thought it began spontaneously but what do I know? 

This below is from the site of the Modern War Institute at West Point, the military academy where American army officers have trained.  I knew most of this but am astonished to see the American army admit what it did. Assad was saved by Putin sending forces to his rescue in retaliation for the Ukrainian revolution and by Donald Trump defeating Hillary Clinton. She said 8 days before the election she lost that regime change in Syria would be her top priority.

"The single greatest blunder the United States made in Syria was to support armed Islamist opposition groups, in partnership with Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. This policy effectively began in 2012, became increasingly reckless over the course of 2013, and was finally axed in 2017.The CIA’s vetting of rebel groups was supposed to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of radicals. Instead, most of the arms Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia smuggled into Syria went to armed groups with links to the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafi-jihadist networks. Rather than pave the way for a political transition, such policies only fueled a destructive civil war that accelerated the emergence of jihadist armed groups.

"The epitome of all that went wrong with US policy in Syria was Timber Sycamore—a billion-dollar CIA program to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting the forces of Bashar al-Assad. Timber Sycamore ultimately failed to unseat Assad, helped turn Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia, and caused untold misery to the Syrian people. A three-year study funded by the European Union and the German government later established that efforts by the United States and its allies to arm Syrian rebels “significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons” of the Islamic State."

The Americans and British obstinately pretended they were backing moderate rebels when as Jake Sullivan told Hillary in a leaked email "In Syria we are on the side of Al Qaeda". 

The media repeated the American lies as they always do.

America does much more harm than any other country in the world.