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.
Jody Vicars did you fall for the Putin’s propaganda ? Just asking as I see your name at the head of this post .?
I wouldn’t trust Putin at all. I’ll stick with my Americans here in the USA.
Why does every UN address look like it is from a cheap bathroom with 1 foot by 1 foot marble tiles? Love to see the carpet “tiles”
Sooo, how did it become Obama’s “Arab Spring”
I could not agree with you more Robert. We joined with the Russians to defeat$#%&!@* The time has come again.
It’s too bad you prefer a Soviet style thug, to American statesmen.
Norman I suggest you first examine the record of Obamas surgical strikes against ISIL leaders before making claims of Putin since until now he was attacking the Syrian anti ISIL Rebels
They are probably not even embarrassed by being called out by Putin, so smug and self-important they are! Everyone in the world sees this except Obama, Clinton and Kerry….and probably Biden.
We pretty much know OBAMA is screwing things up. That being said PUTIN what took you so long go back to the hole you crawled out of.I guess there is money to be made in the sewer that is the middle east. I guess losing 225 people on a airliner because of isis or was it the two downed military planes one dead pilot.Now the U.S is a problem.It is funny how the world sees your old military,,,,,
Who cares about PUTIN the most overated leader ever.