[caww]

.....”there’s a village in Syria that features prominently in Islamic/Twelver eschatology. Dabiq”....

Turkey just pushed ISIS out of Dabiq....The Islamists see it as a temporary pause, not a defeat.

Question for me is if Hillary is elected would she have enough of Assads refusal to leave and simply bomb Damascus?......and that would be plenty enough for Putin to be pushed over the edge and attack Israel as a counter punch.....not that he has anything against Israel, but it is the shortest route to retaliate rather than cross the ocean. Everyone knows Israel is supported well by the USA and therefore harm Israel you harm America as well.

Either way dicey stuff going on..to be sure.

[Pelham]

It seems a pointless game to be playing. From the video Putin doesn’t appear to take Obama and Hillary’s belligerence seriously.

But if they up the Syrian ante by doing something designed to provoke a reaction from Russia there is no way to predict how Putin would play it.