[odawg]

Strange article. Describes the problem, then gives no recommendation for what would be an appropriate strategy. He mentions Rubio as being the only one who sees the problem correctly, and slams Trump. Maybe the whole article is just something he concocted to slam Trump.

I saw a blurb this morning that said Netanyahyu has not criticized the Russian intrusion. He may have made a deal, he just visited Putin.

[ETL]

Great to see that there are prominent pro-American sources out there expressing grave concern about Russia's true agenda in the Middle East and beyond. I like the line "Putin, with all the unpredictability of the morning sun". In other words, it's obviously as hell what he really wants to do there.

From the posted article...

"The Syrian mess has gotten messier because Vladimir Putin, with all the unpredictability of the morning sun, has invaded Syria on behalf of Assad and Putin’s more important ally Iran — Assad’s longtime string-puller. The Russian strongman’s claimed purpose is to fight the Islamic State — a pretext no more real than was the supposed need to protect indigenous Russian populations that Putin cited in invading Georgia, Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine.

Putin, with China’s indulgence, is obviously attempting to fortify a sphere of anti-American influence across the Middle East."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425030/syria-putin-assad-obama-republicans

[Mariner]

"Our vital interest in Syria (and Iraq and elsewhere, for that matter) is to prevent its being used as a platform for the launching of attacks against the United States, our allies, and our interests."

Using that logic, it's in our "vital interests" to occupy every country in the world.

McCarthy usually gets it right, but in this case is far, far afield.

[blueunicorn6]

Where is Obama on this?

Is he stoned again?

Or is he waiting for The Grifter to tell him what to say?

[ponygirl]

This has all been a plan to destabilize the region in order to bring hundreds of thousands of Muslims to America, where they will receive their next orders and shipments of weapons and all that ammo the DHS has been buying for the last 6 years.

Not sure why people can't see that. The time for arguing is over. It's past time to start fighting back, or we will never be able to. But they'll just call me crazy. (Shrug) okay.

[blueunicorn6]

Here’s the #1 reason we should not intervene in Syria.

Obama.

He likes to golf and taunt the Republicans and lecture, but in seven years, he has made zero effort to learn the job of being The President of The United States of America.

The rest of the world knows he’s in over his head, but the Democrat Party and the American Press see our governance as some sort of crosstown high school football rivalry and won’t get after him.

We have a player in Syria that we know has nuclear weapons.....Russia.

We need some brains and guts and experience and we have Obama.

It’s like watching the Three Stooges try to fix a leak in the plumbing.

[tet68]

Kind of late isn’t it, Hillary! and Obama already
put the match to the tinder.

[Magnatron]

I think I’m fine with this whole thing. Syria is an ally of Russia, I would expect Russia to help them, but in the end, why shouldn’t Russia deal with these nuts? We’ve done it long enough. The Mideast countries aren’t willing to clean their own house. Let them all kill each other. As long as they leave Israel alone, we don’t really have any interests. I can’t see Putin trying to wipe Israel away, or even helping those who would.

[bert]

this overlooks the truth...... after Obama abandoned them in ‘13 they could not function

the wackos filledthe void

the moderates fled and are now refugees

obama must resign or otherwise leave office