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.