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.
Max, kudos on the smartest, most focused point made here. Good luck converting these folks to some do-your-homework point of view.
Angel, I’m kind of close to agreeing with you, except that it’s not Ivy League sources that got us into this global mess. They advised against it all along, for reasons that became clear over the decades. The Americans who made it happen were money interests and cheap politicians.
Putin the hero? For murdering Syrian innocent children. WOW
Our gov. is trying to stir up c**p and get Russia to start something before Jan 20th. I believe Putin is smarter than that.
Summary of Obama’s Foreign Policy.
You know you’re trouble when you enemy has more integrity than you
Depends on your view I suppose. I viewed him as responding to what was in effect civil war but with very limited action. The dominant criticism has been that Obama’s response was to soft–not enough USA might since he would not commit ground troops. Personally I don’t we will ever understand or have a means to help bring piece in the middle east.
Why did we need to get involved in someone’s civil war? Answer? Our great buddies Saudi Arabia want their pipeline through Syria to get its oil to Eastern Europe cheaper and faster to undercut the Russians and do some damage to their economy. That’s exactly why we’re there.
Why did we need to get involved in someone’s civil war? Answer? Our great buddies Saudi Arabia want their pipeline through Syria to get its oil to Eastern Europe cheaper and faster to undercut the Russians and do some damage to their economy. That’s exactly why we’re there.
HE IS HERO THE U.S.A. HAS DONE NOTHING TO HELP