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.
Wierd invading Iraq to overthrow saddam who wasnt “the right thing to do” i guess a democrat in charge makes all the difference.
I love how you conservatives fell to your knees and started sucking commie$#%&!@*the minute a black man became president. Holy$#%&!@*you are what is wrong with this country.
wait on trump to talk with.
John M Vail where’s the proof that Russia helped him get elected???
Put up or shut up
The Democratic party is conducive to your claim in traitorous support !
The sky is falling! Please take your meds.
Sharon Whitson Freshour Putin’s unwillingness to play along is why we are hearing all the anti Russian propaganda in the press. While they’re telling us Russia wants war, Obama and NATO have been amassing arms and troops in Russia’s backyard. The NWO puppeteers are trying to use our military for their evil purpose. It boggles the mind others can’t see it and would so willingly cede our sovereignty to the UN which, of course, would be the front for the puppet masters.
Gee I thought it was Bush who invaded Iraq & messed up the middle east.excuuuuse me.
No we were not invited to Syria, Assad was a secular leader and accepted all people. Before , Obama and Hillary got involved. Stupid to go against a secular leader in the Middle East there were none to stabilize the situation. Now all is lost for the hundreds of thousands of dead Syrians not to mention the Caliphate in Iraq , the refugees in Europe. Little late now, Putin makes sense, America is out in the Middle East !
Republicans and democrats alike understood the need for Saddam to stay in power. Only the fools bush2 put in charge thought he should be taken out. We could have taken out Saddam the first time, but Bush sr. Had the understanding of the middle east political structures. America did not go after Assad, his own people did. By helping them we would possibly have gained another ally in the area and taken some away from Iran and Russia. Pay attention to all of this and not the one liners you are fed by the right wing propaganda machine. They don’t give you ALL the info you need to understand any situation.