[cripplecreek]

That doesn’t fit with Obama’s plans for a radical islamist sect in charge of Syria.

[ought-six]

Trying to topple Assad was a loser idea from the start.

The Obastard has created mayhem with his so-called Arab Spring, and he has made the entire world more dangerous.

Russia is right on this one: If the goal is to eliminate ISIS in full, the interested nations need to concentrate on that goal and that goal alone.

And let’s face it: Russia is not going to let Assad fall.

[norwaypinesavage]

Assad is a tin-horn, despot dictator with a horrible civil rights and human rights record in his country. He often kills his political opponents with impunity. This all puts him somewhere near the median of third-world dictators or even Middle-East dictators on this earth. Why Obama and Hillary have singled him out among all the others for removal is beyond me.

I rarely side with Russia on anything, but I'm with them on this one. It seems, too, that the longer Obama lasts as our third-world dictator, the more I have been siding with Russia.

[fivecatsandadog]

“Russia, which views Syria as its closest Middle East ally, has long been at odds with the West over Assad’s future with Moscow saying only the Syrian people should decide if he steps down.”

Exactly. Obama’s and Hillary’s manipulated coups have been total failures.

[Mamzelle]

Aren’t McCain and Graham trying to topple Assad?

[Former Proud Canadian]

Putin is going to get everything he wants in the next 13 months.

He is riding high approval ratings at home and abroad. He is drawing new allies to his side while America loses them. He is a man of action while Obama is a man of nuance. He wrestles bears bare chested while Obama rides a bike in mom jeans.

Kidding aside, America is losing and the world is re-positioning itself. America is an uncertain ally at best. France and Germany are being drawn into the Russian orbit. They are the big dogs of Europe and will take the rest of Europe with them.

If this continues, you will see long time American allies moving towards Russia. As it is now the US can count on the Anglosphere nations and a few countries in Asia. I don't know how long even this will last.

Meanwhile in the States the high school stadiums will be full on Friday, the college stadiums will sell out on Saturday and the NFL will do a huge box office on Sunday. The world is slipping away and nobody cares.

[SC_Pete]

Putin playing chess.

[McGruff]

Drop Assad demands if you want to unite against Islamic State: Russia to West Obama and McCain.

[silverleaf]

Looks like Russia is telling our toddler POTUS “ no” and sticking to it

A very dangerous move given his instability and willingness to punish anyone who sets him off even American citizens and even to death

But way overdue

I wish Lavrov was Speaker of the House

[arthurus]

Assad was, until the late unpleasantmess, the best available ruler for Syria. His has been a standard non-sectarian hard dictatorship like the rest in pre Arab Spring days but he protected the minorities, the Christians, Alawites, Kurds, etc., and kept the Shia and Sunni apart. His power was based on those minorities. He, himself, is an Alawite which is only nominally Shia as the sect's adherents refer back to the same Ali. Where he has lost control the minorities are massacred or chased out of the country. For the non major sect Moslems, that leaves no alternatives but death or fight for survival against overwhelming odds. For the major sect Moslems there is open emigration to America and Europe which has the added benefit, for them, of promoting the Islamification of those places.

Assad's alliance with Iran is only good so long as Iran does not rule as an empire in the whole ME. IF Iran no longer needs Assad it will kill him and be as ruthless against the minorities in Syria as it has been elsewhere and as all Moslems-in-the-majority unfettered by an effective secular dictator are.

[arthurus]

Assad was, until the late unpleasantmess, the best available ruler for Syria. His has been a standard non-sectarian hard dictatorship like the rest in pre Arab Spring days but he protected the minorities, the Christians, Alawites, Kurds, etc., and kept the Shia and Sunni apart. His power was based on those minorities. He, himself, is an Alawite which is only nominally Shia as the sect's adherents refer back to the same Ali. Where he has lost control the minorities are massacred or chased out of the country. For the non major sect Moslems, that leaves no alternatives but death or fight for survival against overwhelming odds. For the major sect Moslems there is open emigration to America and Europe which has the added benefit, for them, of promoting the Islamification of those places.

Assad's alliance with Iran is only good so long as Iran does not rule as an empire in the whole ME. IF Iran no longer needs Assad it will kill him and be as ruthless against the minorities in Syria as it has been elsewhere and as all Moslems-in-the-majority unfettered by an effective secular dictator are.

[Rusty0604]

Putin says it’s God’s job to forgive (the terrorists), and it’s his job to bring them to God.

[JEDI4S]

As long as Buckwheat and his minions can continue to add our enemies to the welfare roles of America. They don't really care about winning anything that benefits the United States.

The list of charges against the left that will soon demand action continues to grow.

[CPT Clay]

Yep