Yep. That’s the consequence of having a bimbo as a leader.
How about the way to roll back Russia is for the USA to side with Assad for him to wipe out the jihadis (and all the Syrian rebels are jihadis) and then call it a win?
I hope Russia will not get sucked into a quagmire, but I imagine they learned from Afghanistan and will be more cautious. As for a geopolitical disaster, Obama is a disaster, and anything that stops Obama from further destabilizing another country is a good thing. Russia's efforts to restore stability are not a humiliation for the United States, just for Obama, and he's not American in any meaningful sense.
Roll back? We should be rolling WITH Russia to eradicate the islamo terrorists. This ain’t the same USSR boogie man so many are whining about.
Uh No...
And Hell No, sabre rattling accomplishes nothing but satisfaction to a Strutting Cock, and more than a few of everybody’s eggs will be broken!
We have our own Oil, more than we need in truth and that us diametrically opposed to where we were decades ago..
This extended dependence cycle is needlessly progating now. Pragmatically, the Russians are doing us a huge favor by exposing harshly and uncompromisingly just how najed we appear with U know who at the helm
Let them fight Islam, or corral it, my interest in the ME is Israel and all else is secondary as the cost for results too high
Or as my friend Derek says “Was the Juice worth the squeeze?”
Russia in the middle east is much more serious and deadly than the desert fleas with AK-47’s. The FR cheering squad is in for a deadly awakening.
Obama has hurt us again by not killing ISIS.
Russia killing jihadis in Syria bothers me not a bit.
What groups? ISIS? Go ahead Vlad, exterminate 'em.
One good consequence to this is that liberals do not tend to get elected when Americans perceive a serious threat on the world stage. People are willing to give them a shot when things are calm and the stakes aren’t too high, but usually when people see we are playing for keeps, the liberals lose.
Or to directly shoot down Russian aircraft.
The way out is military pressure on Iran. Take out the nuke capability and governmental infrastructure...overnight. And then implement a no-fly zone over Iraq.
Renew military ties and support to Egypt.
Make sure Israel gets the first 200 F-35's off the line.
Another DC, think-tank paper soldier planning all the fine ways we can repeat all the stupid foreign policy mistakes of the past.
If only all sides in Syria could lose. Russia is moving to control the oil market & to topple the dollar as the currency for oil. It might be good thing for the short term to get rid of ISIS, but having Russia as a major player in the region is not a good thing.
In Syria I think it’s funny he’s blowing up our jihadis. They even had an orthodox priest bless the Jets first.
Type! Type! Type faster! Harder! It is all slipping away! Type or you will be left with nothing, einfreigoebbels!
Stupid article. Give Stingers to ISIS?!
...and they are all ISIS over there.
Get the USA out of Syria.
Shut up, Max.
Russia has weighed in on the side of the Shiites. ValJar is Shiite. Huma is Shiite. Iran is Shiite.
Saudi is Sunni.
Russia would go back home tomorrow if the price of oil went back above $100/BBL. Unless and until that happens, the Russians will continue to plan and equip for the invasion of Saudi Arabia.
From there, the Iranians will insist upon the invasion of Israel, which is where things will get interesting.
America on the decline?
Somebody is eating our lunch!