Assad is a genocidal killer in training, like his father (Jews/Israeli, Lebanonese Christians, Jordanians, and his own people, often with Soviet/Russian and fugitive Nazi war criminals help). He uses the Syrian Christians for his goals, not theirs, but they are caught in an almost no-win situation. Be killed by the Jihadists or fight for a Neo-Nazi fascist leader.
50 members of one group are not going to overthrown Assad, but they can do some things on the ground our Marxist President will not do.
The Russians are out for the Russians, not for Christians, Moslems, Jews, Buddhists or Vegans. Putin wants to reestablish Russia’s old 1960s/70s bases/sphere of influence. Read a few history books if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Do you think that a Russian nuclear arms base in Syria would be a good think for peace, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, or the US?
This is not a NeoCon position. It is an amalgam of many geo-strategic thinkers from the 1970’s and 80’s, US, Israeli, British, etc, who looked at the political and geographic landscape, both in their present and future, and saw what harm lies out there if not prepared for.
Syria was one leg of the future Nuclear Triad of Iraq, Iran and Syria, all with aims at destroying Israel, subverting Saudi Arabia and overthrowing the Hashmenite Kingdon of Jordan, the Gulf States/Oman and even Yemen (where the Soviets dropped poison bombs on anti-Marxist forces there in the 1960’s/70’s, using Egyptian pilots lent by Nasser. (Again, a little history lesson for you to read up on).
You have not heard Obama say one word about protecting Christians in the Middle East, and figures appearing in some of the media say that he/State Department/DHS have only let in a handful of Christian refugees from Syria and Iraq, while letting in 65,000 or more Moslems of varying factions.
With Obama, Kerry and Clinton as our foreign policy leaders, we will lose the Middle East to various forms of national and religious fascism that will make the Middle Ages seem like Utopia.
Give it a rest.
“Assad is a genocidal killer in training”
If you want to see a genocidal killer in training, take a look in the mirror.
Another armchair general supporting mass murdering terrorists in Syria for some contrived real politic goal.
At least our politicians are bought by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, while you have no such excuse.
“This group needs some Stingers to show Putin that there will be a high price for his aggression.”
Yes how dare Putin show aggression against terrorists who are actively genociding minorities.
Let’s arm the terrorists to escalate and prolong the war so more innocents get butchered.