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 is a total embarrassment to America.
Cory Johnson, it must really p**s you off that Putin actually respects Trump. Never say never.
What is really sad is that a murdering communist leader with no regard for human suffering is actually more honest than an American President who has been shown to be weak, ineffectual, lazy, narcissistic, lying and ignorant about true economics. I do not trust nor think of Putin in any good way nor would I ever trust him because he also has broken agreements and treaties the last few years and is no friend to people with common sense or strong moral values. but our President can with one word be described as “pathetic”.
The so-called “Arab Spring” encouraged and abetted by Obama and Hillary has been disastrous in every way and has surrounded Israel with more dangerous enemies than ever before.
Rosemary Stanifer Bost yup. Just wait!
Jonathan Scribner Conservative rewrite history to suit their beliefs. Reagan is a Saint.
Boneheads Unite !!!!!!!!
You believe Putin respects Trump? I don’t. I think he knows he can play Trump. By massaging Trumps ego. Putin cares about Putin and Russian expansion. Nothing else. And if helping to destabilize American interests advances his expansion agenda? He will play that every time. Hillary Clinton knows that. But Trump just says. “I think he likes me!” Being completely inept to world politics is dangerous. Stupid is dangerous. Obama is an international law professor. Trump couldn’t run a casino. Not to say he can’t learn. And it does seem he has quieted his rhetoric now that he is beginning to see the world from a President’s eyes. But this Putin Bromance will go no where. At least from an American intersets point of view.
Obama does not own a Sword. He once said if “you bring a knife to a fight we will bring a Gun”. Maybe he was saying phone?
We have idiots running our country.