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.
The concept of “Arab spring” and the flourishing of democracy in the Middle East was not Obama’s. It was the rational used by Rumsfeld and Chaney when they sponsored the invasion of Iraq in Bush’s presidency.
They bombed the country in poverty with a crazy expectation that somehow glorious peace and prosperity would emerge. Obama has been left with the insanity. And, Puton adds to it.
I never thought I would see a right wing post praising a murderous. I grew up in the Cold War when Puton was a KGB agent. He is just as slick now with his tradecraft.
Obama is just what Clint said he was. The biggest FRAUD ever pupetrated on America.
“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.” (Because they are too “invested” in their politically correct concept to admit defeat and take a more appropriate track).
Paul Harmer I must have misunderstood your point.
Chad Halvörson the rebels in Syria were NOT ISIS when the civilians took it to the government. Yes we did arm the rebels. Then the rebels were overtaken by ISIS leaders and a lot of the weapons we gave the rebels ended up in ISIS hands. But we did not arm ISIS. Russia does have a stake in Syria, like we do for Suadi Arabia or Kuwait.
TRUMP / PUTIN waswas NEMESIS 2017 !!!
Either way its a$#%&!@*caused by the Obama administrations terrible foreign policy.
Adam Myers not really. It was the right thing for America to do. We want Assad out of power, we have wanted that for decades. We saw an opportunity and took it. Not Obamas fault that the rebels caved to ISIS.
Yes Sir … He knows EXACTLY what he has done. Exactly.
More truth from Putin than the entire bunch in the OBUMMER Administration.