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.
Marsha White Hale Your statement is so chock full of misleading falsehoods there are no words.
rasPutin HATES the US.. As do all of rasPutin’s GOP Fans…
Is that why every GOP candidate claims that invading Iraq was a disaster that created this mess and created ISIS? So let’s listen to conservatives on how to clean up their mess. Thanks, but no thanks. It’s sad that conservatives now praise mother Russia and bash the United States and our military. What Patriots. Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.
What he should have done was blame George W and$#%&!@*Cheney.
If you think Putin is so great why don’t you go hang out with him then tell us what you think. Don’t judge any man before you know them.
slezak
fact check people!!!!!
Bill Sitter I can’t believe this and that I’m even saying this but Putin is the only one who is not lying and really whats ISIS DESTROYED!!!!
What is the truly sad is that the American right wing has adopted this despotic madman as their hero. No wonder they call their states “red”.
I get really sick of this anti-American embrace of Putin. I hope someday you visit Moscow to know what it’s like to live under him.