Let's remind ourselves what Obama said to Medvedev a few months prior to the 2012 elections....
Posted on 09/30/2015 1:04:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Russia's air strikes on Syria's rebel-held areas of Homs and Hama provinces have killed at least 36 civilians, including five women and six children, according to rebel opposition groups. Russian defence officials said aircraft, including Sukhoi Su-24 warplanes from an airbase near Latakia, hit the Islamic State (Isis) group but multiple local and international sources said IS-free areas were targeted instead.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), a Western-backed opposition group, said it has been struck by Russian aerial bombings. The group's commander, Major Jamil al-Saleh, said the northern countryside of Hama "has no presence of Isis at all and is under the control of the Free Syrian Army". He said his group had been supplied with advanced anti-tank missiles by foreign powers battling President Bashar al-Assad.
A French diplomat has criticised the strikes saying they support Assad's regime. "If it is Homs, which it seems to be, it is not Daesh [Islamic State] that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Bashar's regime than in fighting Daesh," the source said on condition of anonymity.
1/All The targets in today's Russian air raid over Northern #Homs were civilians .36 civilian has been killed in ISIL & Al Qaida free areas.— خالد خوجة (@Khaledkhoja) September 30, 2015
The statement was echoed by a US official who said the raids "do not appear" to be targeting IS-held areas. Russian warplanes targeted five towns, in Zafaraneh, Rastan, Talbiseh, Maramia and Ghanto, causing the deaths of 27 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition group. Another rebel group, the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition, said 36 civilians were killed in those areas.
The Syria Civil Defence, a group of volunteer rescue workers operating in rebel-held areas of Syria, put the death toll at 33.
Russia strike in Homs today. 33 civilians killed including 3 children and 1 @SyriaCivilDef volunteer. pic.twitter.com/5aYYSrwv2d— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) September 30, 2015
A member of the FSA told al-Arabiya news that the Russian air strikes targeted the headquarters of the group in a Hama suburb. The leader of US-backed rebel group Tajammu al-Aaza told BuzzFeed it was hit by Russia "because we are on the front lines against the regime".
US state department spokesman John Kirby told reporters a Russian official in Baghdad, Iraq, informed the US embassy that Russian military aircraft would begin flying anti-IS missions over Syria. He said: "He further requested that US aircraft avoid Syrian airspace during these missions."
Did Obama think they were there to help him with his policy goals?
Probably there is some kind of misunderstanding.
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RE: ooopsie
Based on what they did to Chechnya many years ago... I don;t think they care if Civilians are killed.
One difference between Russia and the US: they don’t care about collateral damage.
Soething significant to consider in this theater is that .NONE...Zero,... Zippo... of the groups Obama’s CIA, the Pentagon, or any of the Mid-East allies they’re working with have been able to train or support a viable alternative to the Assad regime..NONE! Millions spent for an army of five...while the rest of the Syrian men run away to Jordon, Turkey and Europe is NOT an army.....and that’s just reality.
There is ‘no New Syrian Army’ that has not been taken over by terrorist groups....Obama knows that..sometimes I do wonder if the ultimate Islamic terrorist is Obama? After all they had to run and get him off the gold course after the fact when they took out Ben-Laden...
Aside from that Russia’s naval station at Tartus in Syria is its ‘only’ remaining overseas military base Putin has outside the former Soviet Union. Putin is not going to let that fall into Islamists hands under any circumstances.
....”One difference between Russia and the US: they don’t care about collateral damage”....
I don’t believe that anymore...not under Obama. Instead rather then get his hands dirty in war he gets all these terrorists groups to do his dirty work....the end result is the same.
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