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.
Im happy we didn’t push the red line in the sand , that was my point, Putin made that happen, the Syrian rebels we hear about are Isis mercenaries armed by the USA, and the Saudis
Kevin Kayser you didn’t understand what I wrote
When working in the middle east it critical to think in a tribal mentality. These areas have always been controlled by regional strongmen. Tribal leadership is tribal leadership, what every we may think is a ideal does not work everywhere.
Putin is helping Asad murder hundreds of thousands of people in Aleppo but suddenly he’s the good guy?$#%&!@*out of here. ISIS is weak in the Middle East. Their only hope is to reach out to sympathizers on social media like they’ve been doing. And when you got a jackass leader saying we’re banning Muslims, insults a fallen Muslim CPT’s family, and other horrific$#%&!@* it makes ISIS’s job that much easier. He knows more about ISIS than our generals do but doesn’t go to any Intel briefings? Lol America has lost its mind.
All this and Obama went golfing 20 minutes after being called on the ambassador being killed and the truck filled with steel that killed and injured all those people. Funny how he decided to take his Hawaian vacation 5 days earlier than he normally takes it in prior years. But teeing off is more important.
Not an Obama fan but hate to tell u good folks: Putin is a LIAR.
Why do you have to make it about race?!?! No one is talking about his race here from what I can see. For$#%&!@*sakes…. Sometimes I think the real racists are the ones accusing others of being racist. Go kick rocks. Obama in my definition has been a terrible President. Awful. The worst??? Probably not. But one of the… Leave his race out of it you moron. It has nothing to do with it.
Kevin Kayser are you really defending ISIS right now? Lol. You do know that Syria up until ISIS was somewhat of a peaceful country right? The only reason ISIS took hold is because they threatened to stop using the petrol dollar in favor of the Russian ruble. We provided ISIS with the means to destabilize Syria. Naturally Russia being an ally of theirs would come to their defense. Read up on the real reasons why we are where we are first. Then come back and comment.
Holy c**p you can’t be this stupid…. The reason why we are where we are at today is because Syria threatened to stop using the petrol dollar in favor of the Russian ruble. We destabilized their country and then empowered ISIS to take over the country. Which they have failed to do because of Russia’s help. If anyone is to blame here it is our leaders in America.
Yeah? So what do you call it when Syria threatens to stop using the petrol dollar in favor of the Russian ruble and America decides to destabilize the country and then empowers ISIS to take over? You really want to go down this “Lesser of two evils” road buddy? You will lose. The whole reason for the uprising was constructed BY the elites in Washington. Had we not meddled in that countries business and let them do what they want there would have been no uprising likely. There would be no ISIS. There would be no thousands of civilians murdered. There would be no refugee issues in Europe. Syria would have stayed a relatively safe country with closer ties to Russia. But nope. We decided that anyone that threatens our dollar surely deserves to be fucked with… And now you see where we are today. Go kick rocks dude.