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.
Why don’t you do add some friends from Syria. Talk to them about what’s happening in Allepo. You will find it hard to find someone that doesn’t agree with what Assad is doing. Add some Lybian friends and ask them about Ghadafi, they loved that man. Ask them about Sadam Hussein while you’re at it.
We have a problem folks. We are attacking governments that are threatening the US dollar and the world bank. I’m not down to murder a few people so I can have an iphone and my masters can keep their power. Are you?
Are you people crazy? Really? Are you blind to what’s going on in Syria and Aleppo? Putin is helping Assad exterminate innocent children, women and men under the guise of fighting ISIS when they are bombing the Syrian rebels who are tired of living under Assad brutal regime. They kill these people rather than let them evacuate from the city. Barrel bombs from helicopters, missiles from RUSSIAN fighter planes AND chemical warfare all perpetrated on innocent citizens of Syria. They have no interest in defeating ISIS , only the rebels. Assad and Putin are out and out cold blooded killers and you morns think Putins great ? Smart? A powerful leader? You know how many he killed in Russia who opposed him when the head of theKGB. He killed a man who opposed him in the shadow of the Kremlin. You people who support Putin and anybody that aligns themselves with him are deranged and have lost their moral compass. They are the reason Syrians are pouring out of that country into Europe and yes, the United States! Wake up you idiots , educate yourselves as to what’s really going on in the world and not on the internet. I,m getting$#%&!@*close to being ashamed of sharing this country with dolts like you. Sign me ,DISGUSTED
Yeah they listened to ObamaO
You think liberal ideology and democracy are the same when in fact it’s democracy that has chastened liberal ideology because they wish to force their minority views on the public.
They don’t understand Sharia law, and if they did, they wouldn’t call those who oppose it islamaphobes.
Tell me how you oppose Sharia law and yet the opposition of Sharia law is islamaphobia?
The nuance is understanding my the dogma of Islam, which….No doubt…..The average liberal and conservative alike know very little.
Putin is now interested in democracy?? Does this article include a laugh track??!
Wow, you idiots are openly taking up for, and cheering for the sworn enemy of our country… a country that is actively trying to take us down… let’s all cheer for the ruskies! I guess people really do hate Obama more than they value and respect our country… the new conservative principle… disgusting….
He does
grace….. More like tyranny
Obama is a racist little$#%&!@*
Putin has no interest in democracy in the Middle East or anywhere else. There will never be democracy in an Arab nation. Stability should be the objective. Our efforts should encourage stability and a minimum of violence. If we decide to become involved militarily, it should be overwhelming and decisive. However, no peace keeping bs, no nation building, only devastating warfare as a last resort to insuring stability. Our “involvement” in Syria helped no one. BTW….the Saudis, Kuwaiti s, and other wealthy nations should take the refugees…..