Five years after President Barack Obama first called for Assad to step down, Robert Ford, the last American ambassador to Syria, criticized the U.S. policy.
"The United States does not have leverage to forge a consensus," CNN reported Robert Ford as saying.
"And, frankly, the Obama administration is doing very little, if anything, to generate leverage to forge that consensus."
Ford said that the administration had a "myopic" focus on ISIS.
America is, he said, "trying to fix with a military hammer a deeper political problem."
Ford resigned his post more than two years ago, saying he could no longer "defend the American policy," KITV 4ABC News reported.
He has called for a much more forceful policy against Assad.
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