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.
Created under the guise of a program to root out fraud and illegal activity, this initiative has been used by White House administration bureaucrats to pressure banks to end relationships with businesses they consider to be objectionable or “high risk.” The House Financial Services Committee, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary have held hearings on this out-of-control program. Peter Weinstock, a partner at a Dallas law firm whose practice focuses on corporate and regulatory representation of financial institutions, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on July 17, 2014: “The U.S. Department of Justice created Operation Choke Point ostensibly to combat consumer fraud. However, it has become apparent that the program instead seeks to eradicate disfavored businesses.” This administration has targeted small businesses such as firearm and ammunition dealers, cigar shops, fireworks retailers, pawn stores, payday lenders and others. This backdoor effort by this administration to target legitimate law-abiding businesses they do not like, and to coerce banks to choke off relationships with these businesses, is completely unacceptable. Dennis Ross, American Banker, 5/4/15.
You cant force freedom on those who dont want it, the best thing the US can do, whether under Bush, Obama, or Trump, is stay the$#%&!@*out of it.
Impeach? One must only look to the VP to understand why Obama was never removed from office.
Please, theyre going to kill us all with cold war era AKs and Toyota trucks? The more involved we are the worse it gets. We killed the people who kept them in check, before invading Iraq Iran wasnt a problem, before leaving a power vacume in Iraq ISIS wasnt a problem.
We should really stop defining the exposure of corruption as “tampering”.
who cares.
Love Putin
To all you sick mf’s keep riding on Putin’s$#%&!@*but you are right Obama knew exactly what he was doing keeping America safe don’t you ever I think that Putin is the United States of America’s friend we are the only thing standing in his way world$#%&!@*and he’s going to play Trump for the fool that he is and all you sick mother f’s that’s supporting him and following his stupid$#%&!@*America will fall under Trump leadership that’s when you sick mother f’s will wake up but it will be too late you going down Putin is playing Trump like a tool and Republican America right along with it y’all are a dumb$#%&!@*people
Your trump people now talk about Obama for Russian president but your President trump is Putin little b*******? Come jan your war begin because trump work Putin
Mr. Putin: Of course he doesn’t, he’s the biggest imbecile this country has ever seen.