The notion that Assad can't be reasoned with is absurd and the folks like Rubio who are pushing that nonsense should be classified as domestic enemies.
Posted on 11/24/2015 8:03:32 PM PST by WilliamIII
Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian jet fighter is a “critical moment†for the U.S. and its allies to stand up to Moscow, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Tuesday.
Hours after the Kremlin condemned Turkey’s decision to shoot down the warplane for entering its airspace, Rubio warned against letting Russia get the upper hand.
“It's important for us to be very clear that we will respond and defend Turkey if they come under assault from the Russians. Otherwise the entire NATO alliance comes into question,†Rubio, who is running for president, said on Fox News.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
maybe so...
Russia is asking for a investigation so I assume we will get the results in due time.
I personally think that the Turkmen on the ground, might have killed one of them, but the info is sketchy and confused.
The Turkmen have had the crap bombed out of them by the Russians and have lost a lot of men and villages to them as well. So they are pretty po’d...but they don’t take direction from turkey and in fact we are arming them which is where they got the TOW to down the rescue craft.
Another thread states that pilot #2 was rescued by Assad’s army.
Rubio has chosen poorly.
And he forgot that Turkey prevented us from going into Iraq on its northern border..Let the thugs duke it out
The turkish bastard rigged the election to win, a muzzie is a muzzie here we go aain supporting the terrorists
I would feel much better about Trump (and Cruz) if I heard them saying that the TWO political/social threats we face are Islam and Godless Marxism (which today goes by at least three names: Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness, and Critical Theory). The Godless Marxists have allied themselves with Islam, which they hope will assist them in destroying Christianity.
It is entirely insufficient, to rouse the American people from their slumber, to call Obama, Hillary, et al., “stupid,” “incompetent,” “weak,” “Neville Chamberlain(s),” and suchlike. They are Godless Marxists, and they control the universities, the press, the government schools, K-12, the entire Abortion Party, and much of the Republican Party.
"And I say to myself, what a wonderful world."
The Rube obviously doesn’t know anything about the Turks and their Islamist government.
Hey Marco! "What's in your wallet?" Apparently a Caliphate One card.
Mr. niteowl77
Ok Rubio pussy,get in your tank and get going you stinking Rino fraud
If the pilots were killed, it’s a bridge too far.
Gosh, I'm so impressed I'm gonna stop funding Cruz and get behind Rubio......
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The notion that Assad can't be reasoned with is absurd and the folks like Rubio who are pushing that nonsense should be classified as domestic enemies.
Did Rubio ever serve in the military? Many who never experienced such service are quick to put others in harm’s way. After all, they are our betters.
Marco Rubio has a sizable family and is not independently wealthy. Does he rent himself out as a Charlie McCarthy for big donors?
As I told you, non of that worked...Assad paid them only lip service. It was all a charade.
BTW, Assad the junior apparently is much worse than the father. And he was bad enough..
I find it astounding that a conservative would defend Assad.
While I don’t see any workable options for regime change here, I could never utter a single approving word about either of them.
This place is broken.
That is not the case; we are into Cold War II, and Russia is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy:
Currently Putin is instigating the merger of the corrupt ordinary court system and the well-functioning economic courts, which in all likelihood will render the economic courts as corrupt as the ordinary ones. Not very convincingly, Putin argued that “unifying these courts will allow us to bring judicial practice onto one track, and therefore strengthen the guarantees protecting a crucial constitutional principle, the equality of all before the law.” Of course, the president cannot state openly that he is promoting the inequality of corruption.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putins-conservative-state-capitalism/491790.html
Speaking last June at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Dmitry Medvedev said: “I want to state very definitely - we are not building a state capitalism.†President-elect Vladimir Putin has promised to reduce the government's role in the economy by 2016. In an article published last January in business daily Vedomosti, Putin proposed to partly privatize dealing with state-owned enterprises working in the high-tech sector, such as Rosatom and Rostekhnology.
Exiting president Medvedev and president-elect Putin may deny that Russia's powers-that-be are not building state capitalism. But deny it or not, over two decades Russia has been breathing hard under a worse socio-economic system - a state-oligarchy capitalism.
http://rbth.com/articles/2012/03/23/what_kind_of_capitalism_has_russia_built_15160.html
We don’t need another John McCain. He’s started enough wars.
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