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.
Roger Thibault YOU ARE ONE IGNORANT MAN ROGER AND I’M SURE YOU VOTED FOR PUTIN ERR I MEAN TRUMP. IF YOU CONDONE RUSSIA HACKING THE UNITED STATES JUST SO YOUR CANDIDATE COULD WIN THE ELECTION YOU ARE A RUSSIAN SYMPATHIZER AND SHOULD BE STRIPPED OF YOUR CITIZENSHIP. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A COMMIE AND YOU NEED TO MOVE TO RUSSIA WHERE YOU BELONG. PS: ARE YOU ON SOCIAL SECURITY YET, ANOTHER SOCIAL PROGRAM. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-socialist-programs-and-social-programs
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Mike Pace… here is your personal lap dog
Ubel Wrede EVEN THOUGH IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I WORKED TWO JOBS IN MY LIFE AND RETIRED WITH 41 YEARS. AND I HAVE PAID PLENTY OF TAXES I’M SURE MORE THAN YOU EVER WILL.
Remember the “hot mic”, after the election I will have more flexibility, the LAPDOG will be leaving on 20 JAN 17!
Paranoia will destroy ya!
Please explain your statement?? Putin has wanted peace and communication with us for years. It is not the fault of Russia that the current administration has been meddling in the affairs of the Russian government and her allies.
Bama did this on pure hatred for America. He’s going to set us up for another war before he leaves office. He’s pretty much got it done.
You obviously know nothing of international politics.
How on earth Mike Pace can you support an IDIOT AMERIPHOBIC ISRAELI HATING THUG LIKE OBAMA