Posted on 12/21/2015 11:10:26 AM PST by JPX2011
Barack Obamas repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office and that there are moderate rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagons Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administrations fixation on Assads primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasnt adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washingtons anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.
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I just read this article from another site, very good article and glad you posted it....
“... Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China...”
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I think it’s more that he is captive to his Muslim & leftist upbringing that instilled certain attitudes in his psyche.
bttt
Bottom line: Obama is still doing everything he can to topple the Syrian government so that his ISIS/AlQuaida/Hezbellah IslamoNazis can take over the country (just like he did in Libya, and in Egypt before the Egyptian people somehow overthrew Obama’s MB comrades, and just like he’s trying to do in Yemen, Iraq, Somalia, AFghanistan, and probably more places
(meanwhile, he and his nefarious backers are invading Europe and USA and now Canada with Islamonazi ‘immigrants’ — expect more and more terrorist attacks in the streets of your town soon)
Another Freeper sent me this for the hash fix.
Something I got from another FReeper (unfortunately, I can’t remember who) that will help you remove the “weird trash” from anything you want to post - it has worked very well for me thus far:
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
I leave this link on my toolbar so I can get to it with one ‘click’.
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Paste it into the top box at the website.
Click on “convert” underneath the box.
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Since it’s already highlighted for you, just ‘copy’ it and then paste into the FR posting screen.
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Is there no one left on Free Republic who knows who Seymour Hersh is?
If it is totalitarian, Obama’s is all over it.
Obama WAS doing everything he could. Putin has successfully quashed O’s moves it that direction. Witness O pulled our F-15’s out of Turkey as Russia has established a 500 mile radius no-fly zone from Latakia and those planes very well could have been shot down.
Hillary? Are you there?
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