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.
This says it all.
Chance Smith thanks for the name calling.
Do any of you liberals realize that the US, UK, China, Japan, Russia and Germany have all been spying on each other for over 50 years, and they all know about it, and none of them do anything about it? Hell when I was on Navy ships traveling to foreign countries, we had Russian and Chinese submarines following us around listening to our radio broadcasts. Now, all of a sudden, it’s a freaking issue just bcuz Trump got elected?
The Russians had nothing to do with Trump getting elected! There has been no proof or evidence given by the State Department or any Intelligence Agencies to prove that Russia hacked anything.
Trump got elected bcuz Hillary was a p**s poor candidate and a p**s poor excuse for a human being, and bcuz Americans are fed up with the failed policies of the past 8 years.
Trump won fair and square so GTF over it and quit your freaking whining!!!
A five-year-old in an adult body [Obama] can do a lot of damage. Putin is the world’s richest man $200 Billion, how? Watch out!
A Hole in one, used his putter
Richard Gibbs obama would have us all killed in the name of Islam if he could. Don’t for one minute doubt our patriotism when it comes to this pos.
Obama did create jobs fact is he a goat humper fact did he give Iran billions fact , wants India to make our fighter jets ? Not sure do I believe anything that is printed in the Washington post ? hell no I still smell treason
I love how people try to act inform, and stick up for Obama . There pety little eyes are still closed
7 countries
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Syria
Somalia
Libya
Yemen
All countries we are in and have killed in under Obama.
2015 UN speach ? ?