Posted on 10/14/2016 5:55:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Funny thing, back when GW was president I might have said, “Go kill’em all!” Wipe out Assad, Quds, Russian meddlers, and ISIS all together.
But with Obama at the reins? The only reason he’d do that is to wag the dog.
Down the road, when Russia ultimately grabs control of the strategic, oil/gas-rich Middle East, in addition to their ongoing aggressive actions in Eastern Europe in their attempts to retake their former Soviet Union satellite states, the US and its allies are going to have some very serious problems on their hands, as Russia and Iran have significant militaries and nuclear capabilities. We need to play this situation very carefully, as Saboteur-in-Chief Obama has already bent over backwards to appease Putin on missile defense and nukes, including the very dangerous Iran nuke deal, which Putin loves and claims to have played a major role in.
‘Down the road, when Russia ultimately grabs control of the strategic, oil/gas-rich Middle East, in addition to their ongoing aggressive actions in Eastern Europe in their attempts to retake their former Soviet Union satellite states ...’
That’s true. A modern navy can have considerable influence over the Saudi peninsula.
At the same time Turkey is going ‘radical Islam’ now.
One thing Trump would need to do is try to get ‘radio free America’ out in the Middle East and undermine peoples’ support of Islam, such as economics stats that show how backwards Islamic nations generally are.
"Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa alleged that an operation for the removal of chemical weapons was prepared by the Soviet Union for Libya, and that he was told over thirty years ago by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Yevgeny Primakov, about the existence of a similar plan for Iraq.
It is 'perfectly obvious', wrote Pacepa, that the Russian GRU agency helped Saddam Hussein to destroy, hide, or transfer his chemical weapons prior to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. 'After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place.'[13]
John Loftus, director of The Intelligence Summit, said in the November 16, 2007 issue of FrontPage Magazine that many documents from Iraq point to WMD being transferred to other countries such as Syria: 'As stated in more detail in my full report, the British, Ukrainian and American secret services all believed that the Russians had organized a last minute evacuation of CW [chemical] and BW [biological] stockpiles from Baghdad to Syria.'
His researchers allegedly found a document ordering the concealment of nuclear weapons equipment in storage facilities under the Euphrates River a few weeks before the invasion.[14]"
They, the Russian KGB, and their modern counterpart, the FSB, which Putin headed for a time, are/were notorious for pushing disinformation and committing complex acts of deception. The Russians are great chess players, thinking many moves ahead of their opponents. Most of us, unfortunately, would probably have trouble just setting up the pieces to play a game.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence denied having any differences with running mate Donald Trump about U.S. policy in Syria after Trump appeared to contradict Pence's stance during Sunday's presidential debate.
Pence told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor" Wednesday that debate moderator Martha Raddatz had "mischaracterized" his position on the U.S. response to ongoing attacks on the city of Aleppo by Syrian government forces backed by the Russian government.
During the debate, Raddatz told Trump that Pence had said "if Russia continues to be involved in airstrikes [in Aleppo] ... United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike the military targets of the Assad regime."
Trump responded, "[Pence] and I haven’t spoken and I disagree. I disagree."
On Wednesday, however, Pence told O'Reilly that his initial statement referred to international humanitarian "safe zones" where civilians could go to escape the fighting.
"I did say [during last week's vice presidential debate] that to secure those safe zones, we should be prepared to use military force if necessary to allow the people to evacuate Aleppo and get to those safe areas," Pence said.
"Now, the way [Raddatz] presented it, it was as though she conflated that with broader military action against the Assad regime and that’s not been Donald Trump’s position."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/12/pence-denies-rift-with-trump-over-syria-policy.html
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Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence tells voters in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that a Trump-Pence administration would reverse the “weak and feckless” foreign policy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
He also included details of the now Democratic presidential nominee’s failed “reset” with Russia.
After recognizing the men and women who have served in the U.S. military, Pence spoke of visiting the fields in Gettysburg with his daughter and laying a wreath where “the 27th of Indiana lost 40 percent of their soldiers in one charge up a small hill.”
“What we have inherited, is freedom,” said Pence who spoke of the “price of freedom.”
Pence, running mate to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, called Clinton the “architect of America’s foreign policy” as he said that the leadership of Clinton and President Barack Obama has, “weakened America’s place in the world.”
“History teaches that weakness arouses evil,” said Pence. “That the weak and feckless foreign policy of [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has created an environment on the world stage, of an America leading from behind, of moving red lines in Syria.”
In August 2012 Obama set a red line for Syria. “We have been very clear to the Assad regime — but also to other players on the ground — that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,” he said according to CNN. Assad crossed that line in 2012 and 2013 when Sarin gas was used to kill Syrians, including an August 2013 attack that killed 1,400 according to Bloomberg. Obama had promised airstrikes, but didn’t follow through.
Pence continued in his speech to the Pennsylvania crowd, “Hillary Clinton actually said that the number one priority during her tenure as Secretary of State was the reset with Russia.”
“She posed for a picture, she pressed the button and Russia invaded Ukraine,” said Pence. “And Russia has inserted itself along the brutal regime in Syria. As we stand here today threatens to bring its incredible violence against defenseless civilians in Aleppo.”
Pence talked about the Obama and Clinton decision to withdraw all combat forces from Operation Iraqi Freedom forces and the resulting “vacuum after 2012 in which the terrorist organization ISIS was able literally to be conjured up out of the desert sands and overrun vast areas of Iran.”
He criticized Clinton for her part in the nuclear deal with Iran, of which Pence said, “all we did was delay their nuclear ambitions.”
He spoke of Clinton’s State Department under which four Americans died during a terrorist attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya. He criticized Clinton for telling the families of the fallen that a video was to blame, but emails sent before she spoke with the families revealed that she knew it was terrorist attack virtually from the beginning.
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