Posted on 06/15/2013 6:13:25 AM PDT by nikos1121
On Wednesday, Qusair fell to the Bashar Assad regime in Syria. Qusair is a strategic town that connects Damascus with Assad’s Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean, with its ports and Russian naval base. It’s a major strategic shift. Assad’s forces can now advance on rebel-dominated areas in central and northern Syria, including Aleppo.
For the rebels, it’s a devastating loss of territory, morale, and their supply corridor to Lebanon. No one knows if this reversal of fortune will be the last, but everyone knows that Assad now has the upper hand. In 1958, President Eisenhower — venerated by today’s fashionable “realists” for his strategic restraint — landed Marines in Lebanon to protect the pro-American government from threats from Syria and Egypt.
In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Russia threatened to send troops on behalf of the Egyptian army. President Nixon threatened a U.S. counteraction, reinforced the Sixth Fleet, and raised the U.S. worldwide military alert level to DEFCON 3. Russia stood down.
That’s how the region works. Power deterring power. Obama deals instead in empty abstractions — such as “international legitimacy” — and useless conclaves, such as “Friends of Syria” conferences.
Assad, in contrast, has a real friend. Putin knows Obama. Having watched Obama’s retreat in Eastern Europe, his passivity at Russian obstructionism on Iran, his abject bended-knee “reset” policy, Putin knows he has nothing to fear from the American president.
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Putin is supporting the side that is against al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, Obama and Charles Krauthammer are supporting al-Qaeda.
“Once WMDS are used, no matter who is responsible...something has to stop the use.....”
Why? WMDs or mortar barrages - same end result. Why should WMDs constitute an arbitary, contrived, sacrosanct line in the sand? The Bush neocons and obamabots use this excuse to involve the U.S. in conflicts inimical to our national interests, as though we are the world’s policemen.
Bttt!!!
Who cares what the President wants. It appears that John McCain and Bill Clinton are controlling US foreign policy now.
What a sad statement it is when Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are right, and the POTUS is wrong.
If you can’t see the difference of our nation being attacked on it’s own land...9/11..under the Bush Administration.....
....and the dingbat we have now going into countries we are not at war with.... Then how do you expect to understand anything about the situation now..and or later?
That photo expresses it perfectly! Wow! Good job there!
That photo expresses it perfectly! Wow! Good job there!
....Assad met with the people frequently, he sis not ignore them and while these talks were occurring the terrorists moved in right from the beginning. He informed everyone of the reports about this...
Now he certainly wasn't a perfect leader and admits so...but compared to what we have in ‘0’? I think Assad would indeed be considered a moderate....though like Putin we do know who they are even if from time to time they say something sensible.
“If you can’t see the difference of our nation being attacked on it’s own land...9/11..under the Bush Administration.....
....and the dingbat we have now going into countries we are not at war with.... Then how do you expect to understand anything about the situation now..and or later?”
I understand the situation perfectly. It could be argued that our initial response in Afghanistan was justified. However, since we have no vital interest in Afghanistan and have announced that we’re leaving in 2014, the continued loss of American lives is pointless.
Attacking Iraq over WMD that were not used against us and have never been found is highly questionable.
Regarding Syria, the only thing that is clear is that all players in the conflict are bad guys. Sending arms to the Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels that may in future be used against us as a response to alleged WMD use is foolish, particularly when siding with the rebels puts us in conflict with Russia and China. There are other responses (e.g. economic sanctions, pressure on trading partners,etc.).
The main point of my previous post was that the use of WMD is an excuse for Obama to get involved in the “Arab Spring” of yet another country. I mentioned Bush because he also used the same questionable excuse to invade Iraq.
>>>>Assad understands the mindset of the people he is dealing with...and the nations surrounding him....he could not have stayed in power with the approval he has had without the peoples support...they do not hate him...the original protesters simply wanted the reforms begun to move faster and others to be implemented....
....Assad met with the people frequently, he sis not ignore them and while these talks were occurring the terrorists moved in right from the beginning. He informed everyone of the reports about this...<<<<
Just like Saddam. Both rooted for Christians and unveiled women. And they hanged jihadis and other hate boys from the trees to keep peace in their cesspools.
Someone posted a transcript of screams from earlier massive anti-Assad rally: “Bashar, you are a traitor. Stick your Constitution, elections to your #$%, hand as Ak-47s to kill Christian dogs, you, a slave of the Jews, Iran and Russia”.
That brings things into perspective on who is who there.
They took out Mubarak, Qaddafi and Saddam...and will do so with any who are not willing to cooperate with the NWO Agenda.
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