Posted on 06/15/2013 8:12:46 AM PDT by Innovative
President Obama's belated acknowledgment that Syria's regime has used chemical weapons effectively forced his decision on Thursday to arm the opposition. Whether Mr. Obama's U-turn alters the conflict's course is a different question. One thing seems certain: Russia's support for Bashar al-Assad remains unwavering. It should make for an interesting G-8 meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Northern Ireland.
Since Syria's civil war began, Mr. Obama has insisted, contrary to fact, that the U.S. and Russia have a common interest in resolving the crisis and stabilizing the Middle East. Secretary of State John Kerry's recent efforts to secure Russian co-sponsorship of a peace conference, at which Washington will push for Assad's ouster, reflect Mr. Obama's illusion.
The objective evidence consistently demonstrates that Russia has no interest whatever in eliminating its only remaining Arab ally. Moscow's military and financial assistance to Damascus continues undiminished... ....
While the evidence about Russia's strategic objectives may not be conclusive, the direction is ominous. And as long as America operates on the assumption that the U.S. has common interests with Russia in Syria, Lebanon, Iran or the Middle East generally, we will see Moscow's influence rise and ours decline. Even in today's Washington, that's a scandal.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Unfortunately it's all too obvious who is which...
The US loses power and influence minute by minute under Obama's so-called leadership.
0bama could always invade to grab the WMDs.
They are already gone.
Barack Obama: Dumberer
The only maneuver Obama knows is Cover Up and Blame
Yes, I'm sure they now have Obama’s real birth certificate, his various foreign passports, college transcripts, college grades, and photos of Obama and his homosexual lovers in “compromising” positions.
Putin now controls Obama, and, in doing so, he controls U.S. Foreign Policy.
And how actually do we read the article?
“President Obama’s belated (by six months) acknowledgment that Syria’s regime has used chemical weapons effectively forced his decision (to inform the public) on Thursday (that he has for at least a year been planning) to arm the opposition.”
CIA preparing to deliver rebels arms through Turkey and Jordan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3031656/posts
“The CIA is preparing to deliver arms to rebel groups in Syria through clandestine bases in Turkey and Jordan that were expanded over THE PAST YEAR ...”
And how actually do we read the article?
“And how actually do we read the article?”
Sorry about that — when I clicked on it, the full article came up fine, then after your post, I clicked on the link again and as you found, it didn’t come up, wanted me to subscribe or log in...
Then I went back to Google News, where I found it, it came up in search, and when I clicked on the link from there the article did come up. Seems like it works via Google News referrer.
At Google News I put into search “Russia Obama” and the first article that came up was this one.
Bolton is a hypocrite.
He may be right about WHAT Russia is doing.
However, as why at this time Syria is seeking greater military support from Russia, Bolton is being less than half truthful by his silence on the origins of current events.
Those origins began a decade ago when Bolton was in the U.S. administration. They entailed an alliance of the U.S., some other western nations & the Saudis and the Gulf States to engineer “regime change” in Syria. It was a pattern much like the 1979-1989 arrangements to oust the Russians from Afghanistan. We all know how that came out - Al Queda, the Mujahadeen and the Taliban were the chief beneficiaries.
Like in Afghanistan between 1979-1989, our intentions became entwined in objectives of those who actually had the boots on the ground and the core leadership of an “opposition” working on an agenda, in the long run, that was, and in this case is, not ours.
Minus our actions, “secret” as the mostly were, beginning more than a decade ago and continuing non-stop under Obama, no externally created, funded and fortified “oppostion” in Syria would have put Assad in a position where he would have obtained the need for greater military cooperation with Russia.
Is Assad a “dictator”? Yes. So are the autocrats in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States - the primary local backers attempting the Sunni putsch in Sytria.
Was there many reasons for the U.S. to oppose Assad in many different ways, primarily geopolitically & financially? Yes.
Was supporting the Sunni-Islamist putsch misnamed a “civil war” in Syria one of those good reasons for us? No.
Bolton was “present at the creation” of the events that eventually bore fruit as the “Syrian opposition” (a product of our work) and now he bemoans the fact that those events have drawn Syria into heavier military cooperation with Russia.
He’s a fool and a hypocrite and like Afghanistan in 1979-1989 a “regime change” scenario backed and supported by the U.S. has made our “good intentions” (and the tools we will put behind them) under the ultimate control of so-called “allies” that will turn on us later on.
Terrific and all-too-accurate graphic. Our hobby-horse leader and his merry-go-round crew would be laughed off PBS Kids.
My ailing cat used to watch PBS Kids all day. She would have hissed and barfed had I turned on the Obamarama Show. ,
“Bolton is a hypocrite”
I used to like Bolton, but I saw his true colors recently when he came out in support of the universal surveillance state. All these intel guys defending this crap are monsters.
LLS
Bolton and his friends are dangerous and duplicitous. Thank God that is finally being understood at FR.
He’s also solidly on the homo agenda bandwagon, some time ago before DADT was taken down he said he thought homos in the mil would be fine and dandy.
/puke
We’ll be a long time waiting for apologies from the neocon cheerleaders and the vicious sycophants who drank their kool aid.
Because 0b0z0 leads from HIS behind.
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