It is sad that Obama, Clinton and Kerry have so messed up the Middle East with their “Arab Spring” that Vladimir Putin becomes the hero who brings order out of the chaos.
Putin, allies with Assad. His relations with Iran are improving. (Hey, you don’t see masses of people in the streets of Tehran shouting “Death to Putin! Death to Russia!”) Russia sees Syria as a strategic location. They have moved military to the Syrian border. Putin believes Obama’s fingers in the Middle East have left a vacuum that ISIS is filling. Putin is closely aligned with how many American conservatives view Obama’s bungling of it. More bungling on the next page.
From Putin’s UN speech:
Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?”
A report at Jihad Watch answers:
No, they don’t realize what they have done, and they’re poised to do more of it. And those of us who warned at the time that the “Arab Spring” would not lead to “the triumph of democracy and progress,” but to “violence, poverty and social disaster,” were dismissed and derided as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” And no matter how often the establishment analysts get things wrong, and disastrously, and fatally so, they never get called to account, and keep applying the same failed solutions.
Source: Jihad Watch
Bravo! Well said.
Two choices: Either the Obama regime, who encouraged what they named the “Arab Spring” knew exactly the fallout, and wanted to destabilize the Middle East. Or the Obama regime is delusional and really thought having “JV Team”, ISIS, fill the vacuum. That’s a good thing.
Whatever you think of Putin, he is right about Obama. No easy answers, but with pro-Arab apologists like Samantha Powers as Ambassador to the UN, a real confidante, who has the ear of the President, and was one of the architects of the Arab Spring, you can bet what happens next will be more of the same.
Perhaps after Putin is through eliminating ISIS over there, we can invite him here to take on the tens of thousands of Syrian Islamists that Obama is inviting in.
Obama was warned about the Arab Spring by none other than his most hated right-wing pundits. Many Americans I spoke with sought caution in supporting one side or the other. Obama, in my opinion, saw an opportunity for chaos and being a man of no forethought, immediately stamped his own vision of what will come of it. The results resemble more of what the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others had warned was likely to happen.
There is no “I didn’t see this coming” from Obama, Liberals or the Democrats. They were warned that removing soft dictators would result in a vacuum; one that would be filled by those with the guns and power. At that time the guns and power were held by radicals and thugs. Rather than knee-jerk wishful thinking (Westernized Democratic Government), the replacements for Mubarik, Khadafi and his like have been overcome by people with much ill intent.
As predicted.
how sad that we have a leader that can be$#%&!@*slapped by Putin and nothing is done about it boy we need a President like Reagan
Um . . . Putin supported the Iran deal.
Chris Weigand Um . . . no. Paraphrase means to restate someone else’s meaning/thoughts. That’s why academic writing requires attribution of paraphrased material just as if it were a quote.
Yes Vlad, he’s still breathing….
dude obama Kerry and Clinton need no help in looking like$#%&!@*to Putin I would rather have Putin then the kenyan monkey we have in the white house as he is a total idot
Putin is the same Asshole
This guy is more American than the idiots currently running our country.
Putin is a real leader. Ovomit is nothing but a scumbag. Clinton doesn’t even deserve to share the same oxygen.
Jason it has NOTHING to do with his color. You MORON open your eyes and try and see his Illusions…. you wont get what i just said to you but i get it…..