Posted on 10/02/2015 7:42:32 PM PDT by aught-6
President Obama defended his response to the growing crisis in Syria on Friday by pointing to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, cautioning against a commitment that risks drawing the U.S. into a new quagmire in the Middle East.
Obama appeared determined to take on critics whom he portrayed as impatient and ignorant of the complexity of the warring factions in Syria. He laughed off suggestions that Russian airstrikes in recent days against fighters opposed to President Bashar Assad, an ally of Moscow’s, have President Vladimir Putin looking stronger than Obama in Syria.
“We’re not going to make Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia,” Obama insisted during an afternoon news conference at the White House. “This is not some superpower chessboard contest. And anybody who frames it in that way isn’t paying very close attention to what’s been happening on the chessboard"
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It is if Putin says it is.
Aw, Putin didn’t checkmate obama, he full on tea bagged him!
The boy hasn’t got a clue.
There is no complexity.
Either you are against the terrorists or you are on their side.
Øbongo is playing tiddly-winks in a chess world.
Actually it is you low grade moron.
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Bad checker player explaining his skunking at chess by a chess master by telling everyone they were really playing Chinese checkers. Or something.
One thing is certain, He is not on Team America
““We’re not going to make Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia,” Obama insisted during an afternoon news conference at the White House.”
I’m normally no fan of Obama, but if he’s willing to disengage so that Russia can take care of the Terrorists in Syria, then MORE POWER TO HIM.
The last thing we need is some hormone-driven ‘Republican’ (I won’t mention her name) DEMANDING that we start World War 3 against Russia.
Let Russia clean this mess up, and then THANK THEM when it’s over. I’m sick of trying to play good-cop there.
Putin has no respect for our sissy-girl, on the down-low leader.
Obama has been supporting the people Assad and Putin want dead.
Let’s see how Obola feels when the Russians start to mass on the Saudi’s northern border.
Obola will pack up the armored div that’s in SA right now and take it home.
As they say, “You can’t win if you don’t play.”
The middle east has just been ceded to Russia. That's what I observe happening on the Chess board.
Obama has lost all seriousness. He is now down to very bad lines, silliness, showing no class whatsoever. Middle school behavior at best. RCP quit polling his numbers is he forever stuck at 43 approval now? I sure would like to know.
He and Hillary deserve each other. She can at least string two intelligible sentences together, more than Barack can manage these days, but alas, (sigh) her audibles are all lies, with fluency added only as a flourish, typical of her audacity.
Priceless!!!!
Obie started this war and I do not like him a smidgon but Junior, stop mucking us about.
He has killed 10’s of thousands of our troops while golfing and asking the caddy how things Lie
They may, and if they do, we Republicans have at least AS MUCH BLAME as the President, for letting our military deteriorate so much that we’re no longer able to stop Russia in that part of the world.
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