For Obama and Romney, Syria is no-win situation

WASHINGTON — Esca­lat­ing vio­lence in Syria has become the ulti­mate no-win polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion for Pres­i­dent Barack Obama and Repub­li­can chal­lenger Mitt Rom­ney: The deep­en­ing cri­sis is impos­si­ble for their cam­paigns to ignore but too com­plex for them to artic­u­late an easy solution.