After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the wests defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn't. In 2011, Obama led the west in its largest adventure yet in west Asia, thinking that Syria looked like just another domino about to fall in the whirlwind of uprisings sweeping the Middle East. Ten years later, President Bashar Assad is still there leading the heroic SAA which eliminated western-backed Daesh terrorism from more than 70% of the country as reconciliation and reconstruction define the upcoming decade for Syria.