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Syria: Obama talks no fly zones, Putin sends missiles
Rare.US ^ | May 30, 2013 | James S. Robbins

Posted on 05/30/2013 1:02:36 PM PDT by Abakumov

Just when the Obama administration finally starts talking about establishing a no-fly zone over Syria, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin sends the Assad regime the means to shoot U.S. planes down. There are competing strategies at work: “leading from behind” versus “up yours, America.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; israel; jordan; kurdistan; lebanon; missiles; noflyzone; obama; obamaputin; putin; russia; s300; syria; syrianoflyzone; syriawar; turkey; waronterror; yakhont
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1 posted on 05/30/2013 1:02:36 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov
“leading from behind” versus “up yours, America.”

Kinda one and the same when you think about it....

2 posted on 05/30/2013 1:04:03 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: ScottinVA

Isn’t it interesting the timing of this new no-fly zone?

Israel may need to take military action, and all of a sudden there’s a real need for a no-fly zone.

Could Obama be any more transparent?


3 posted on 05/30/2013 1:06:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: Abakumov

Really, does anyone actually listen to (and believe) anything coming of the Obamadork’s pie hole?

Besides our press, I mean.


4 posted on 05/30/2013 1:06:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Abakumov
Assad is a Russian ally and has told Obama many times that sending the rebels arms will only make the war grow.

It's a civil war...very different from Iraq or Afghanistan.

Kaddafhi also warned us about arming the rebels in their country. How'd that turn out?

5 posted on 05/30/2013 1:07:31 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Abakumov

psst....putins missles are defense.


6 posted on 05/30/2013 1:09:26 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Abakumov

missiles sp correction


7 posted on 05/30/2013 1:10:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Abakumov

the missles make the no fly zone easy for Assad to enforce.


8 posted on 05/30/2013 1:10:40 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 can we make it until 2016?)
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To: DoughtyOne; ScottinVA

” Israel may need to take military action, and all of a sudden there’s a real need for a no-fly zone.

Could Obama be any more transparent?”

N O


9 posted on 05/30/2013 1:11:14 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: ScottinVA

Yeah, I don’t want to visualize that in any detail


10 posted on 05/30/2013 1:11:35 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov

Obummer`s no-fly zone enforcer

11 posted on 05/30/2013 1:13:32 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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Putin's missiles are defense.

Not in the hands of Hamas or Hezballah they aren't.

12 posted on 05/30/2013 1:14:07 PM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Israel may need to take military action, and all of a sudden there’s a real need for a no-fly zone.”

Israel has been launching cruise missiles and glide bombs from Lebanese territory. The no-fly would need to include Lebanon.

If the US flies planes over the very latest Russian interceptors we will lose planes. Flying over Syria is insane.


13 posted on 05/30/2013 1:14:15 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Sacajaweau

We may well be backing the wrong guys—again! For all his faults—the tyrant didn’t kill Christians.


14 posted on 05/30/2013 1:18:00 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Abakumov
Is this what Obama was talking about when he said he might have more flexibility after the election?

Or is this the result of having a small time community organizer in the ring with world class leaders?

Our little chickadee is trying to compete with eagles and vultures.

15 posted on 05/30/2013 1:18:01 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: oldbrowser

Obama is simply irrelevant to everyone’s calculations.


16 posted on 05/30/2013 1:22:02 PM PDT by Abakumov
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Obviously, Obama will expect Putin to be “flexible,” and thus allow unlimited numbers of Obamadrones to “be employed” in Syria - - - - .


17 posted on 05/30/2013 1:22:34 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

We are backing the Presidents party, the Muslim Brotherhood. Any American who makes the mistake of thinking this is about good guys vs bad guys and kills some Muslim Brother Hood guys dies quickly in accidents.

See seal team Six, Benghazi, and the two cops that shot the Boston Marathon bomber.

The circle of death around Obama is a Muslim one.


18 posted on 05/30/2013 1:22:50 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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19 posted on 05/30/2013 1:26:26 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: oldbrowser
You have to admit that bending over backwards takes a lot of flexability. Our president is great at bending over.


20 posted on 05/30/2013 1:28:57 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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