And you haven’t considered that most FReepers just scroll right on by your overly verbose posts?
Ok, so we get that you’re terrified of Vladimir Putin, what do you think we should do about him? Sanctions on Russia? Nuke the sonuvabitch?
Enlighten us please.
First of all, we should never have allowed Putin to be in the position he is in today. We, if we had a president who wasn't, in all likelihood, in cahoots with Putin in this scheme to basically restore the Soviet Union and then-some with the addition of the Middle East, should have been far more aggressive in taking on and taking out ISIS ourselves. Unfortunately, we do NOT have such a leader, and so Russia was (purposely IMO) given the opportunity to move in, supposedly 'do the job', then set up permanent shop there and grow more powerful and threatening to US and our NATO allies than they are at the moment.
As for a solution for this "between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place" situation the saboteur-in-chief (Obama) has put us in, I have confidence that Ted Cruz knows how to handle it at this point.
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Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...
"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.
We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."
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"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.
We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.
These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.
These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."
"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.
Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."
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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.
The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.
For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.
We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html