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U.S. will not directly confront Russia in Syria, Obama says
Washington Post ^ | 2 Oct 15 | Karen DeYoung, Juliet Eilperin and Greg Miller

Posted on 10/10/2015 12:44:48 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

President Obama has decided not to directly confront Russia over its new air offensive in Syria, believing that President Vladi­mir Putin will soon find himself in a Syrian “quagmire,” but he has approved a new escalation of U.S. efforts against the Islamic State.

Obama laid out the U.S. response to Russia’s actions during a meeting with senior aides Thursday evening. Details were firmed up in a meeting Friday morning among national security principals at the White House, senior administration officials said.

At the same time, the president also approved proposals, made prior to this week’s Russian actions, to strengthen the U.S. fight against the militants. Those measures were recommended by Obama’s new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: prezflustercluck; surrenderjunkies
Putin and Obama are in sync.
1 posted on 10/10/2015 12:44:48 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

Nope...


2 posted on 10/10/2015 12:47:13 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: elhombrelibre

Most people may not realize it, but Obama had U.S. SpecOps on the ground inside Syria.

Now they are out.

Let the Russians bleed there. ISIS will be dead soon enough, and now it won’t be USA blood drowning them.

So what if Assad survives?! He rules a desert, a coast, and 4 groups of people who forever hate each other.

Better his problem than ours.


3 posted on 10/10/2015 12:48:32 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Southack

>> So what if Assad survives?!

Isn’t it preferable to have disparate regions in the ME?


4 posted on 10/10/2015 1:02:28 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 100American

Both of them are helping ISIS.


5 posted on 10/10/2015 1:14:51 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre
OMG....not the meeting with those old white bald guys again.....

Seen here in the early days of the Obamski regime...tutoring our beloved leader in the intricacies of coin tossing decision making.....


6 posted on 10/10/2015 1:26:29 AM PDT by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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To: elhombrelibre

Shocker!


7 posted on 10/10/2015 2:18:50 AM PDT by Deagle
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To: elhombrelibre

8 posted on 10/10/2015 2:23:35 AM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Southack

Just right and well said. We need to work on Jordan Tunisia Morocco and Algeria. Let Lybia and Sudan burn out


9 posted on 10/10/2015 2:40:31 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

The only thing he directly does is destroy the USA.


10 posted on 10/10/2015 4:17:21 AM PDT by inchworm
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To: elhombrelibre

Obammy might have done better as a house wife.
Bitch acts like one.


11 posted on 10/10/2015 4:37:50 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Not like any housewife I’d want to know.


12 posted on 10/10/2015 4:39:25 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: Libloather

Excellent pic explains Obama


13 posted on 10/10/2015 5:34:50 AM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Say Hallelujah !


14 posted on 10/10/2015 5:55:47 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: elhombrelibre

Our choice was peace or honor. We chose dishonor, we shall have war.

(credit to Churchill)


15 posted on 10/10/2015 6:42:59 AM PDT by Daveinyork ("Trusting government with money and power is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys",)
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To: elhombrelibre

Anything that serves the degradation and destruction of the United States, ø is for it.


16 posted on 10/10/2015 8:05:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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