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.
They’re trying to start World War 3 to keep Trump from taking office.
Obama has actually made Putin look like a completely competent, moderate leader with the white hat! So sad!!
Shaun no your kind is the problem librails
You are sadly mistaken! Obama and Hillary are both Marxists and have done nothing but to further destabilize the Middle East.
Seriously I doubt anyone would have enough power to destabilize the Middle East! It’s only been unstable for several centuries!
What a ridiculously stupid statement! You’re going to have to come up with a more believable lie than that! You sound just like trump! LOL!!
Paul Ochsner What you quote as ‘everyone I know who wants to work is working’ is simple anecdotal evidence. You are drawing a simple conclusion from the small group of people whom you know and identify with and applying that conclusion to everyone and that does not represent real statistics. Anecdotal evidence is essentially a story told by individuals. It is the equivalent of an advertising testimonial. Such ‘evidence’ is not likely to be repeatable with several randomly selected individuals in the general populace.The statistics you can view as an American citizen, see the above comment of mine for the link, and actually think about what the graphs and the information available on the government site are actually saying. Numbers do not lie. Data does not lie. The data is actually verifiable and repeatable unlike your anecdote.
Also, many people are working as much overtime as they can get these days mostly due to the fact that most of the jobs available and ‘created’ by the Obama administration are part time jobs. These jobs pay an hourly wage and in most areas, a part time job does not provide enough cash inflow to cover the cost of living. Many places, such a Target, have cut full time hours from 40 hr/wk to only 32 /wk, overtime pay, however, only applies to those hours worked over 40 hrs within a week. (Some people have mistaken working more than their scheduled hours as overtime, however, that is not the case. You will not be awarded overtime pay (hourly wage plus half) unless you work more than 40 hrs.) And it is cheaper for the company to split the hours of coverage needed amongst a handful of part time employees or salaried employees than to actually have someone work overtime.
John Potter
His answer is probably something like, I haven’t done anything.
Obama would fck up a wet dream, and come out thinking he was the man.$#%&!@*obama
Love Putin!!