Competition among countries is, in general, a competition of prestige. In the present age of media where perception and image are everything, a photograph could make a state look like an occupying force while a different shot could make it look like a savior and a charitable state. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, the incapacity of the United States to manage the crisis has become as plain as day. Whether that incapacity derives from a latent strategy or from a peculiar apathy, the U.S. lost its worldwide image of a leading state.By the end of the Cold War, as Russia left the world stage in an abrupt process, the U.S. had become the only hegemon of the world. The idea of a "new world order" that emerged in this transitory period referred to the branding of the American desire of shaping the world single-handedly.This hegemonic status of the U.S. in the immediate post-Cold War period significantly weakened the role and functions of the United Nations. The U.S. in a solitary fashion realized the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq while the Western alliance had only become its tail.The occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq not only traumatized those two countries, but also shook American foreign policy to its foundations. Iraq was occupied in an unjust process at the end of which 400,000 people lost their lives. Now, Iran wants to maintain that chaotic situation in order to wipe Sunnis out of the region.Thousands of American soldiers lost their lives in the unlawful period of the occupation of Iraq. Rumor has it that a group of Iraqis who were advised by Iranian generals concentrated on killing solely U.S. soldiers only. All claims that justified the war turned out to be false. In this respect, the rebellious speech by then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powel in Congress was enough to prove that the Iraq war was founded on gigantic lies.All these erroneous steps in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, which disregarded the international role of the UN and traumatized American foreign policy, have made the U.S. reluctant in producing new policies and maneuvers for the Middle East.Like a bull in a china shop, Russia dismantled Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Whether the U.S. made a sacred alliance with Russia and Iran on the Syrian crisis, Russia has gained the upper hand in the face of the NATO.For a state like the U.S., which wants a new world order, its international image is more than vital. In his article published in the congressional journal, Philip Gordon criticized American foreign policy on the Syrian crisis as nothing more than political apathy. At the meetings in Geneva the U.S. almost exposed a pro-Russian attitude. In the following years, we will continue to discuss the cost of such an image for U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S.