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.
Rob, the second point in your article refers to operation choke point. I’ve worked in banks 10 years…choke point did not force banks to stop lending to gun stores. It happened to do with manufacturers and about 20 other industry types deemed high risk in money laundering. Please if you’re going to argue a point that like, use a legitimate source.
Nope, he doesn’t. For if he does, then he is truly evil.
That’s exactly why the liberals claim Russians to be our enemy.
Julio Santiago well you would have to understand economics and supply vs demand. Obamacare made health insurance mandatory so insurance companies started going out the roof. It doesn’t take much more than common sense to understand that concept.
Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things…every one!
You people are doing what this KGB SPY wants you to.
The way things are going Putin might well be the next US President.
Obama cannot understand the consequences of his actions!
Mike Hartley These are all really good people Mike. Just ask Germany or France.
Putin talks about the UN Charter, but nothing about the UN Security Council violating that charter by ignoring article 80 of the UN charity, in recognizing preexisting treaties such as the League of Nation Mandate of Palestine 1922. That said it was the legal right for Jewish people to settle in their homeland between the Jordan River and the sea. That is the law, and Putin’s jab at the US for messing up the Middle East, while true, is still an attack against us.