Posted on 06/03/2016 9:18:43 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Russia's foreign minister said Washington has asked Moscow not to target the al-Qaida's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, but the U.S. insisted Friday that it only wants Russia to carefully select it targets to avoid hitting civilians and legitimate opposition groups.
Sergey Lavrov said that Russia has long insisted that the moderate, U.S.-backed opposition groups should leave the areas occupied by Nusra. He said in televised remarks that Russia and the U.S. have engaged in close dialogue on how to secure a cease-fire in Syria, but added that fighting the Islamic State group and Nusra should be a top priority.
"They are telling us not to hit it (Nusra), because there is 'normal' opposition next .. to it," Lavrov said. "But that opposition must leave terrorists' positions, we long have agreed on that."
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Putin laughs and calls OBozo a wimpy wussy.
Russia to US: How about ‘Nyet’!
Obama - stop killing my muslim brothers.
And he’s absolutely right!
i have a feeling Russia’s gonna do whatever the F they want
More like Obama: “Stop killing our Al-Qaeda proxy.”
“legitimate opposition groups”
Drek’thar says: “SLAY THEM ALL!”
If the Obama administration wants them safe, they are a danger.
Hey Vlad, just ignore Obama.
Wait, the WH is asking Putin to protect Al Qaeda in Syria? What is going on?
Obama, Kerry, Clinton and the DemoRats claim that there are "legitimate opposition forces" fighting against Assad in Syria.
There are not.
These are several groups of Sunni radical terrorist fighters that the Obama White House recruited by supplying weapons and cash to overthrow and hopefully assassinate Alawite Assad and put Syria under Sunni rule and Saudi influence.
Obama (illegally) armed this group BECAUSE there are no "moderate" Muslims at all in truth, and Obama needed SOME proxy, so they be them.
Of course, this backfired, and ISIS arose, fertilized by the arms and cash support.
The Russians tired of the destabilization and gains caused by ISIS all over the MR and North Africa, and basically went to war against Obama's proxies and made mincemeat of 'em in Syria, but nowhere else as the Russians only have a treaty with Assad and Syria.
How this all ends is very unknown, but Obama may only be able to sabotage until January 2017.
Or we could have WWIII.
MR=ME, the Middle East, sorry
I think this is why Obama needs Hillary to win, so she can carry out the next phase that would include US troops. The US (Obama) supplied weapons, artillery, tanks and vehicles to Lebanon earlier this year. An entire divisions worth of equipment. Moving equipment forward for the upcoming invasion? Preparing for war? There seems to be a pattern. We moved equipment into the Sinai two years ago and now US troops are engaging ISIS there. Has this been part of the plan to escalate the wars? Or is this at the request of the Corporations and the War Machine makers so they can make money? Either way, Obama has increased the amount of US troops in foreign nations over Bush. This is the “Peaceful Democratic Presidency”
Finally we just lose because of all the pussies in charge. Soon, we will lose a big one in the Continental US, if the DemoRats can fraud their way into the White Hut again.
Historically, a valid point, when one strong Muslim terrorist group is weakened, the violence continues only in a more disorganized, random and unproductive manner.
ISIS will likely survive as well, only far weaker but more dangerous from frustration. Once created Muslim terrorist groups generally never go away completely.
The only positive about Muslim fighters is that some can be a stabilizing influence when they are the legitimate military of a Muslim nation with a semi secular Muslim strongman leader. Egypt and Syria were good examples.
Otherwise, Muslims are simply murdering barbarians running wild.
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