Russia has been a Syrian ally for at least 60 years that I know of. It didn’t leave Syria ideologically. It left for financial reasons.
What was the best way to bring it back? The answer is Obama joining the fight against Syrian government forces.
Let’s reflect on the timing of the Syrian opposition. It came as the Muslim Brotherhood executed a plan to destabilize governments from Tunisia through to the Arab Emirate states, and up through Syria.
Was it simply an uprising of citizens in Eastern Syria? No. It was an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
Guess who started the problems in Tunisia. George Soros. He funneled money into Tunisia and the region. His grubby little fingers were all over this. And his nimrod buds in our government went along for the ride. Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Graham advocated for the U.S. to help the terrorists out in Libya.
We funded and armed the Libyan rebels (the Muslim Brotherhood), which resulted in the loss of a very good ally, Hosni Mubarak. It also cost us our Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff’s lives.
I will also talk about Libya, a country whose leader had turned over his nuclear weapons program, and was in that time content to simply lead his people. He was essentially a stable pretty well known individual. He knew that if we would take Hussein down in Iraq, we would do the same to him. He decided to stop being an thorn in our side.
The Arab Spring was a pipe dream of Soros, and we had allied with him and terrorists to pull it off.
The Syrian uprising started in the same time frame where about 12 nations in the region saw elevated uprisings. In most they didn’t go very far, but in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, they did. Syria was in line to join them too.
The U.S. dumped money into Eastern Syria, funding and arming al Qaeda. This most certainly resulted in arms and funds helping to establish ISIS.
What we actually had in Syria was a government that wasn’t openly anti-U.S., was fairly decent to Christians and Jews. I didn’t know that until several years ago, but it true.
Assad wasn’t quite the ruthless guy I had envisioned him as being over the years. Now that’s not to say he didn’t do problematic things, but al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and certainly ISIS would not have been better.
Assad allowed Iran to supply Hamas (perhaps Hezbollah, I forget which as I write) in Southern Lebanon, so he wasn’t without problems for us or Israel. None the less, the other factions vying for power in Syria, would have been devastating if they had taken over the government of Syria on Israel’s Northern border.
Those factions operate as an army, and they would have been on Israel’s border with massive numbers of armed and well financed fighters.
So do I prefer Russian in at this point? I do. Why? Because Russia is willing to stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, and ISIS.
It is inconceivable to me that anyone with half a clue could have envisioned one of these three groups armed and financed on Israel’s border unless they hated Israel and wanted it to be over-run in short order.
There would have been a war in months, had those groups taken over. Russia actually pulled Israel’s ass out of the fire there.
Under the Soviet Union, I would agree with your take. Under Putin, we have a more stable situation that doesn’t promise war against Israel in months.
Do I want Putin and Russia in Syria. Hell no. What’s the quickest way to get him and Russia out?
Stop funding and arming terrorist groups that are more threats to peace in the region than Russia is, at the moment.
Without us there, and a real threat to the Syrian government, Russia will fade again in Syria. If Trump is as smart as I think he is, he’ll make overtures to Putin and Assad, and try to heal the wounds Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Graham inflicted.
Soros involvement:
http://www.wnd.com/2011/02/260577/
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/01/18/tunisian-revolt-another-sorosned-jack-up/
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/arab-regional-office
You really believe it was some vast George Soros left-wing conspiracy, and not the courage and sacrifice of our troops, which inspired the Arab People to be want to want to be like us, and become American Revolutionaries in their own nations demanding freedom and democracy for themselves while doing our country and the rest of the world a favor by overthrowing the Pan-Socialist Dictator enemies of the USA and Mankind who have American blood all over their hands?