[jpsb]

" It is absolutely critical for Iran to keep Assad in power, as the loss of Syria to the West"

I don't know what they are smoking over at zero hedge but it must be some good stuff. Syria is in no danger of falling to the west. The choice is ISIS or Assad.

[Pelham]

“I don’t know what they are smoking over at zero hedge but it must be some good stuff. Syria is in no danger of falling to the west. The choice is ISIS or Assad.”

Good point- it’s hard for the West to ‘lose’ Syria when the Assads have been Russian allies for 60 years.

And if parts of this article are correct, it looks like Barky’s ‘overthrow Assad plan’ had him supporting the very people who became ISIS.

What did the fool Obama think that the Russians were going to do when he cooked up the idea of overthrowing Assad? Did he think that Putin was going to roll over for him like the GOP establishment?

The idiot may have lit the fuse of a major war.