I see this as similar to our troop deployment in South Korea. If the bad guys attack, we aren’t there to “beat them”. We are there to die and to thereby justify massive response.
Will Obama attack the airbase? It will be the equivalent of declaring war on Russia. That’s why the Russians did this. It’s not forward positioning. It’s “I dare you to kill these guys”.
Now let me get this straight — we want ISIS out. But in Obama’s mind the government of Syria is just as evil as ISIS, right?
ISIS is radical Islam while the government is more secular as I understand it.
So Obama is interested in killing off the government while Russia views the Syrian government as a useful ally against ISIS.
Does that about sum it up?
In this case, who would you propose to receive our “massive” Response? RUSSIA? Over Syria??No way.