Posted on 11/29/2015 8:00:07 PM PST by pboyington
We are at war, but life goes on in the US as if nothing is different. We are in a world war and yet the President of the United States can’t even acknowledge who and what we’re fighting. We are in a clash of civilizations and the West seeks leadership and a war strategy from the US and finds nothing.
President Obama has signed off from reality like a TV station that broadcasts only static at 2 AM.
We are at war and the US refuses to throw out a lifeline to the one country and leader that could help us destroy our mutual enemy; Russia and Vladimir Putin.
The world has learned in the past few weeks what we always suspected and feared; ISIS was not just a regional menace. ISIS is now a worldwide threat to the civilized world and anyone who believes in freedom.
ISIS has but one goal, to bring everyone on the planet under the horrific power of the caliphate. They would like nothing more than to drag the world back to the Stone Age.
As we all know, Obama refuses to change his strategy to fight ISIS, which means the US is literally out to lunch in a war against the greatest threat to world peace since the Nazis and Imperial Japan looted the planet 70 years ago.
Without US leadership, the world seems to be drifting aimlessly in the doldrums. NATO keeps looking in their rear view mirror for the US to appear, but all they see is a limitless desert highway leading to Syria and Iraq without backup.
In this power gap, one man has entered, who, while certainly having his own ambitions for himself and his country can be of assistance as an ally to destroy the Islamic State.
Let me tell you about our new friend… Vladimir Putin.
Putin hates ISIS and radical Islam because they’re a threat to Russian interests at home and abroad. Yes, his main focus in Syria is currently keeping Assad in power, but his focus is also destroying ISIS. Unlike Obama, he has a FOCUS.
What is Obama’s focus; windmill farms in Holland?
People say Putin’s a bad guy. So what if he wants the Baltics one day or all of the Ukraine? So what if he wants to revive the imperial might of Czarist Russia? Does it really matter right now? The US has to have friends in the world who aren’t always someone you bring home to the White House for a state dinner. Sometime your friends in the world have to be less than desirable.
How about those so-called best friends?
Merkel, our ally, is like a deranged character from Guenther Grass’ The Tin Drum, currently stumbling around in Cloud Cuckoo Land. Hollande is a great guy to have around if you need a wine and cheese selection. Honestly, besides Netanyahu, who the White House has jettisoned like an empty fuel tank over the Solomon Islands, who is there besides Putin that we can work with to fight ISIS?
The Saudis, yeah right. The King of Jordan; possibly if we can get him away from a Zurich shopping expedition with his trophy wife. The choices are limited at best. The Brits and Aussies? It’s a Long Way to Tipperary… The Canadians will always help us out, even if they think we’re losing it. Who else is there who can flex some muscle?
Just as Uncle Joe Stalin was our ally in WWII, Putin must become our new friend. Putin knows how to flex power. He knows how to use military might, even if Russia’s military might is a mere shadow of the old Soviet Union.
Yet, the White House wants nothing to do with Putin.
Let’s face it Obama and Putin aren’t exactly having a Bromance.
Putin is like the kid showing up with a football on Obama’s doorstep who wants to play catch with Barry, who throws like a girl and would rather play Connect Four with his grandma.
Putin is ex-KGB, which is like being ex-IRA. Once, you’re in, you’re never really out. He’s a tough guy, he pumps iron and watches reruns of The A-Team and Longmire dubbed in Russian. Obama does Pilates and Yoga before his Lomi Lomi massage and watches Lifetime with a box of Kleenex. Is there a problem there?
KGB vs Chi Town Community Organizer – Is there a problem there?
Putin knows how to flex power. He’s a realist. So what if he wants Assad in power? Have we not learned that the only thing that keeps the trains running an hour late in the Middle East is a thug in a presidential palace?
Sorry, Neo-Cons, there are no Thomas al-Jefferson’s and John Abdul Adams’ in the Middle East. Have we finally learned that lesson?
If we had any brains we’d get rid of ISIS, let Putin have Syria with Assad, and put loyal thugs in power in every Middle Eastern country to help us counter Iran.
Sure there are arguments against allying with Putin.
There are those who wish to keep the tension high with Russia. There are powers that be that would love for the US to be at a permanent level of DEFCON 2. The military industrial complex wants a new Cold War. Peace never made anyone any money. Tension and strife are money makers. As General Smedley Butler said, “war is a racket.â€
Many of Putin’s interests are our interests. We have more in common now than we don’t have in common.
In the final analysis, a comprehensive strategy must be formed with NATO and the Russians to destroy ISIS. Every nation has a sphere of influence they want and need to control. Why do we think the Russians are any different?
Realpolitik must be the order of the day, not Climatepolitik.
That’s not who Iran intends to use the bomb on, primarily. They never say “Death to Sunni Islam”.
“He knows how to use military might, even if Russia’s military might is a mere shadow of the old Soviet Union.”
He wouldn’t be saying this if he bothered to read the Washington Times once in a while over the past decade.
“Stop trying to sell me a bridge. Putin is NOT our friend.”
Don’t look now, but Putin is “your” friend much more than Obama is...
Dubya’s biggest mistake was to think Arabs could participate in a democracy. If we wanted to take out Saddam, fine. Replace him with another Arab Strongman. A secular Arab dictator who rules with an iron fist is the best thing we can hope for in the Middle East.
” handing Syria to him puts him right on Israel’s doorstep and as an ally of Iran.”
He’s not an ally of Iran. He’s just using them...
Becoming allies with them to defeat ISIS is like trying to ally with a wolf because you're afraid of a rat.
That begs the question as to what purpose he’s using them for. It sure is not for the USA’s benefit.
And when it comes to Israel, Putin is still one of those who insist on that “Palestinian” state.
Apt and yet poignant analogy.
We know for a fact the pre-curser Sunni militias had deep contacts with the Saudis. We know for a fact that Turkey and its President were working on a joint venture with ISIS to smuggle their oil out the international market. That is why the Obama and the US would not bomb their oil trucks, and when the Russians did, the Turks got even by finding a pretext to shoot down a Russian airplane.
Americans need to realize that Obama's policy is NOT to eliminate ISIS, only to use them to further other, murky goals.
The citizens of that God forsaken shithole certainly bear that out.
Sometimes the world doesn’t need a hero. Sometimes the world needs a monster.
Off-subject: My grandson just turned 7 and I can tell he finds playing games with grandma kinda boring now, except when I throw the football around with him. I used to be his favorite playmate:) I knew that would change yes, but I grieve the loss of that time in our lives all the same.
Carry on....lol
You have to say the same for the millions of Muslims from these countries who the Feds have relocated to America over the years, and who continue to stream here in the thousands. The question that needs asking is since these Muslims are beholden only to sharia law and truly fail at democratic thought or action, and resist subordination to the dominant culture, what the hell are they doing here?
Why do some people persist in that? Why can’t former enemies become friendly, or at least ally in a mission/fight? If the reason they can’t be our friend is because they are angling for more influence in parts of the world how hypocritical that we, the world’s superpower, should hold that against them. As long as they are on the right side of the power play, one can’t consider them an enemy right? Listen, there was a vacuum and our guy didn’t step up to the plate like those prior have so SOMEBODY needs to do something. Who else has the will and the military might? Mexico, Canada, Japan? I’m just not getting all the hate towards Russia. How long has the cold war been over? Guess I’ll go brush up on that history....
Like this guy:
Following his raids on the Ottomans, a significant number of Bulgarian common folk and remaining boyars resettled north of the Danube to Wallachia and recognized his leadership.[1]
As the cognomen "The Impaler" suggests, his practice of impaling his enemies is part of his historical reputation.[2] During his lifetime, his reputation for excessive cruelty spread abroad, to Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
A horribly nasty SOB, by any standard, but he kept the Ottomans out.
It takes what it takes, and sometimes, that's really nasty.
Like Assad?
(oh my, now I have gone and done it!)
“Like Assad?”
You are right. Islamic values are identical to Christian values, on which Western countries are founded. Islamic MEers need to find their inner Christian Jeffersons who are kept down by rulers like Assad. Those rulers need to spread the Word of Christ ... oh ...
I think people are misreading Putin. Turkey is a member if NATO. If Turkey is attacked, all NATO members are obligated to respond...including the USA. Turkey buys illegal oil from ISIS. Putin, under the guise of taking out ISIS bombs the ISIS oil supply. Turkey responds by shooting down a Russian jet. Turkey and Russia are at wars doorstep. If war flares between the two, what will happen? In the past, it would have meant NATO would respond and we would have WW3...but today, with Obama? From Obama’s previous aversion to red lines and treaties, Putin is betting he can hit Turkey and in response, Obama would send Kerry to the UN. By not immediately attacking Russia, NATO is then rendered useless and defeated. Putin is doing this to destroy NATO...and he is one bomb away from achieving his goal. Given the choice, what will Obama do...join WW3 with NATO or dump NATO and try to negotiate a peaceful settlement? Putin is betting on this weakness...he WILL call Obamas bluff...NATO will be rendered useless.
“And when it comes to Israel, Putin is still one of those who insist on that “Palestinian†state.”
In the end Russia will come down on the side of Israel. The muzzzies are imbeciles and volatile and the Israels are brilliant.
Which one would you want for an ally?
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