Posted on 10/10/2015 12:44:48 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
President Obama has decided not to directly confront Russia over its new air offensive in Syria, believing that President Vladimir Putin will soon find himself in a Syrian quagmire, but he has approved a new escalation of U.S. efforts against the Islamic State.
Obama laid out the U.S. response to Russias actions during a meeting with senior aides Thursday evening. Details were firmed up in a meeting Friday morning among national security principals at the White House, senior administration officials said.
At the same time, the president also approved proposals, made prior to this weeks Russian actions, to strengthen the U.S. fight against the militants. Those measures were recommended by Obamas new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
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Nope...
Most people may not realize it, but Obama had U.S. SpecOps on the ground inside Syria.
Now they are out.
Let the Russians bleed there. ISIS will be dead soon enough, and now it won’t be USA blood drowning them.
So what if Assad survives?! He rules a desert, a coast, and 4 groups of people who forever hate each other.
Better his problem than ours.
>> So what if Assad survives?!
Isn’t it preferable to have disparate regions in the ME?
Both of them are helping ISIS.
Seen here in the early days of the Obamski regime...tutoring our beloved leader in the intricacies of coin tossing decision making.....
Shocker!
Just right and well said. We need to work on Jordan Tunisia Morocco and Algeria. Let Lybia and Sudan burn out
The only thing he directly does is destroy the USA.
Obammy might have done better as a house wife.
Bitch acts like one.
Not like any housewife I’d want to know.
Excellent pic explains Obama
Say Hallelujah !
Our choice was peace or honor. We chose dishonor, we shall have war.
(credit to Churchill)
Anything that serves the degradation and destruction of the United States, ø is for it.
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