Posted on 10/02/2015 9:17:45 AM PDT by ETL
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than the Islamic State fighters it said it was targeting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West.
The U.S.-led coalition that is waging its own air war against Islamic State called on the Russians to halt strikes on targets other than Islamic State.
"We call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and to focus its efforts on fighting ISIL," said the coalition, which includes the United States, major European powers, Arab states and Turkey.
"We express our deep concern with regard to the Russian military build-up in Syria and especially the attacks by the Russian Air Force on Hama, Homs and Idlib since yesterday which led to civilian casualties and did not target Daesh," it said.
ISIL and Daesh are both acronyms for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, which has set up a caliphate across a swathe of eastern Syria and northern Iraq.
In Syria, the group is one of many fighting against Russia's ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Washington and its Western and regional allies say Russia is using it as a pretext to bomb other groups that oppose Assad. Some of these groups have received training and weapons from Assad's foreign enemies, including the United States.
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Who the F is an Obama supporter here besides you and your comrades? If it weren't for Obama your boy KGB/FSB Putin wouldn't be where he is today, in such a position of power. What could you possibly have against Obama. If Reagan were still around your Russians buddies would be no where near where they are today. So, please, don't attempt to tell us you're upset with Obama. That you aren't happy as Hell that he's the US president.
You can fantasize all you like. You helped create the situation with your unicorn farming. now choke on it.
With that attitude, it's virtually guaranteed that you'll be whining the loudest when you discover that the "globe" hasn't turned your way.
But then, I'm a globalist . . . .
His Answer:
“COMPLETELY OK WITH IT.”
Well, what do you expect from Americans after 14 years of fruitless war in the middle east. I DON’T CARE ABOUT SYRIA!
My neighborhood is being turned to garbage by politicians purposefully flooding it with third world scum! Assad had nothing to do with it. If I’m going to burn in an all out World War you bet your a$$ it’s going to be fighting against whose actually guilty of destroying my country.
Yea and???
Did you ever mention why it’s Americas authority or business to imperially rule there?
I completely understand. People need to learn that chewing gum and walking are entirely two different things.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
OMG that was SO funny! Really. Amazingly cleaver!
I don’t know about that, but how else can a sentient being respond to the assertion that “I don’t care about Russia because my neighborhood is turning Mexican?”
If it were up to me, I would significantly step up our own attacks on ISIS until they're destroyed or reduced to a minimal threat, leaving Russia no reason for being there. But YOU certainly wouldn't like that, as it would curtail their true goal there: to take over the Middle East.
IF about anyone but you and Barry were COC I’d say nuke russia because there would be a chance we could win it. But with you or barry wanting to get soldiers killed for imperial pursuits I’d have to pass on either of you and pray the KGB agent has more sense than either of you.
It seems those prayers are already answered.
Ok, so we have U.S. national interests, and Obama national interests. When can we go back to the U.S. form? When you feel like it?
Yea, and what I said earlier about you being a totally screwed up in the head evil "so and so", or something like that.
Anyone that would say for it to be "COMPLETELY OK" (your caps, not mine) with them (you) for an evil totalitarian brutal regime like Russia's, under Putin or otherwise, with their long history of arming and supporting America's enemies, and stabbing us in the back time after time, terminal 'silencing' of political opponents, etc, etc, to take over the Middle East and Eastern Europe, in an obvious attempt at restoring something akin to the former Soviet Union, has to be out of their friggin minds. No ifs, ands, or buts. You put your foot in your mouth. I didn't.
Again, if it weren’t for Obama, your boy KGB Putin would be nowhere near in a powerful position as he is today. So stop pretending that you aren’t happy as Hades about him being the US president. He’s the best that ever happened to people like you who want to see a return of the Soviet Union, or something similar to it.
His Answer:
“COMPLETELY OK WITH IT.” [words and Caps his] p>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3343840/posts?page=65#65
Hey if you wanna dance around the room sprinkling glitter and waving your hands in the air like you just don’t care, don’t let me stop you. a lot of us are really getting a kick out of your performance right now.
Yea people read it when I wrote it. You notice exactly one fellow travler agreed with you? The rest don’t want to further upset the crazy person flailing his arms around with a response .
lol. yeah this gonna happen.
Maybe Putin gambled that we wouldn’t do anything and now we might?
If Obama was hesitant to go against Assad, a guy who gassed his own people(in anything but a passive "training rebels" way); and if Obama is hesitant to go against ISIS (except in an ineffective, half-hearted air campaign that's gone on for a year with virtually no results), I'm pretty sure he's not going to do anything to Russia.
This is no gamble by Putin, it's lock.
One would think that a FR vet would understand. But you've always acted like a n00b.
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