Posted on 10/02/2015 3:16:24 PM PDT by keat
US President Barack Obama has said the Russian bombing campaign in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad is driving moderate opposition underground and "only strengthening" Islamic State.
Mr Obama said he rejected the Russian assertion that all armed opponents of the "brutal" Mr Assad were terrorists.
Moscow insists its air strikes - which began on Wednesday - are targeting IS.
But the Syrian opposition and others have suggested non-IS rebels are bearing the brunt of Russian attacks.
Russia said its aircraft had hit IS command centres, arms depots and military vehicles. Targets included the IS stronghold of Raqqa, but also Aleppo, Hama and Idlib - provinces with little IS presence.
"The problem here is Assad and the brutality that he's inflicted on the Syrian people, and it has to stop," Mr Obama said at a White House news conference.
"We're not going to co-operate with a Russian campaign to destroy anyone who is disgusted and fed up with Assad."
He added: "From their [Russia's] perspective, they're all terrorists. And that's a recipe for disaster."
'Stuck in quagmire'
And he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia - and another Assad ally, Iran - faced dangers ahead.
"A military solution alone, an attempt by Russia and Iran to prop up Assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire. It won't work. They will be there for a while if they don't take a different course."
But he conceded that neither Russia nor the US would engage in a "proxy war" because of their differences over Syria.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the latest Russian strikes hit a command post near the IS "capital" of Raqqa, killing 12 IS fighters.
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Obama needs to put a sock in his mouth. If not for obama being an idiot, this jay ee bunch would have never gained traction.
Obama failed. It is time for this damned fool to step aside and let others deal with it.
1. No one with above room temp IQ believes Dorkbama the Muslim.
2. No one with above two sigma to the left of IQ 100 gives a sh*t about what Dorkbama the Muslim says.
3. In any case, Putin is a better leader of the U.S. than Dorkbama The Muslim.
He pronounced it "quoggmire."
With all due respect to Mr Lavorov.
Heres what I read...
Stop killing Muslims you Racist Dogs...
The Russians are showing what a bunch of Girly men and posers they are, when the Russians unleash on them they will wish they had not been born, this is the world stage for Russia to make a statement while Bam tries on new pumps and heels
Man stuff
Putin is giving Syria back to Assad and helping rid the obuma brotherhood...obuma doesn’t want you to know that, but that is what is happening...Iran is going to help Putin, and yes if it didn’t have oil, nobody would care...
Obuma doesn’t care about oil, he just wants his buddies to have it all...
There’s a coalition of Western countries that have been there for awhile now, supposedly hitting ISIS targets hard with precision-guided munitions ...
Question - how can there be any ISIS targets left for Russia to hit? We thought NATO was (according to Obama) carrying out round-the-clock bombing of any ISIS target available, so there shouldn’t be much left by now, right??
Unless we’ve been lied to ...
Putin may just pump Assad back up then come over and build a nice big Russian state where we should have already built a nice big US state in Iraq in support of Israel.
But, we elected God haters instead.
Obama, just STFU and sit your ass down. You had your chance to lead this effort and you blew it completely.
Earlier this week, Putin claimed that Obama's bombing of ISIS has been "fake bombing". I have no reason do doubt this.
He’s a shameless liar
“Pocky-stahn”.
The BBC, a bunch of sissies and wimps hoping that the Muslims save a few goats for them.
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