Posted on 09/16/2013 6:05:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Israel must now persuade Russia, to draw the line at providing weapons to its allies that would undermine Israel’s security.
President Barack Obama’s abysmal failure to provide leadership during the Syrian crisis represents a turning point in the Middle East and has paved the way for President Vladimir Putin’s Russia to emerge as the dominant regional force, a position it had surrendered after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
To avert abject humiliation, Obama has absurdly spun the situation into a victory achieved by the American threat of military force. Instead, it was Putin who played the role of international statesman and masterminded a watershed moment for the Middle East, in which Russia effectively supplanted the US as world leader.
Were Syrian President Bashar Assad to actually dismantle his chemical stockpiles, Putin would have made an important contribution to regional peace and stability. Alas, the likelihood of this happening is exceedingly remote.
Given the barbaric civil war raging throughout Syria, and the history of Syrian lies and deceit, it is virtually impossible to establish any meaningful form of surveillance or control.
Nonetheless, Putin has established a significant role for himself in the Mideast region.
In the process, he has potentially enabled Assad to emerge a victor...
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Russian has always had a toehold in the Middle East. It used to be Egypt
Russia couldn’t have become a dominant player without Obama’s feckless “leadership”.
This should put an end to those scurrilous accusations that Obama hasn’t accomplished anything in the mideast.
“President Barack Obama’s abysmal failure to provide leadership during the Syrian crisis represents a turning point in the Middle East and has paved the way for President Vladimir Putin’s Russia to emerge as the dominant regional force”
Exactly right!!!
I’m all for whatever this posuer tries to accomplish and in the process demonstrates his amatuerism and idiocy.
Jim,
Putin has a for real stake in this showdown. He really NEEDS to keep Assad in power. For whatever its worth, Assad keeps the lunatic mudslimz in check. Putin KNOWS that.
Russia is in a day to day conflict with mudslimes. Russia KNOWS that a dictator in your pocket is far better than izlamic rabble running loose in your backyard.
Just my HO. There is a for real shooting war still going on in Chechnya. It isn’t reported much. But Russians are on the front line with izslam.
Putin’s taking control of this debacle, and I mean DEBACLE! should be embraced.
“A Monkey With A Hand Grenade!”
Sometimes the Russians know how to call a “spade” a “spade.”
Disclosure: I like Vlad (Pooty Poot,) he really is the only ADULT in the room.
And that comes from an old “cold warrior’s” point of view.
Given the barbaric civil war raging throughout Syria, and the history of Syrian lies and deceit, it is virtually impossible to establish any meaningful form of surveillance or control.That's right. In addition, Zero and Cadre have committed to supplying arms directly to the rebel groups; attrition of the Syrian army continues; autonomous gangs of killers who (on paper) support the regime control perhaps as much of the country as the regime claims to; fully ten percent of Syria's surviving population (IOW, not counting the half percent the Assad regime has slaughtered) has fled the country and clearly don't support the regime or probably any of the factions; Iran has circa 19,000 ruthless thugs in country, plus the Iranian proxy thugs of Hizbollah, and the regime has had no problem destroying whole towns and using sarin gas, yet there's been a continual erosion of control and public order.
If America can be an influence, why shouldn’t other countries?
Even the FBI teamed up with the Mafia in WW2 to protect the harbors coz the Mafia controlled the waterfront labor unions.
Even the FBI teamed up with the Mafia in WW2 to protect the harbors coz the Mafia controlled the waterfront labor unions.
Even the FBI teamed up with the Mafia in WW2 to protect the harbors coz the Mafia controlled the waterfront labor unions.
Even the FBI teamed up with the Mafia in WW2 to protect the harbors coz the Mafia controlled the waterfront labor unions.
sorry your server is stuck
Yeah. Don’t know what’s happening, but hope John gets it fixed soon.
lol,
Hey Bunker, me an Appy have had the same problem tonight.
Makes us look like newbie pikers.
Gotcher message the FIRST time!
BTW, you are dead on, fedgov HAD to go to the unions to start protecting the harbors from NAZIs.
The Israelis will have to decide whether having the UN oversee the removal of tons of chemical weapons from the conflict zone in Syria is in their national security interest, even if it means Pres. Assad retains power in his own country.
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Thanks very much for posting. Whoever paid to create this public service announcement and the continued support to finance this venue in which it gets the exposure it duly deserves should be lionized as being a great America, hero, patriot.
As much as we’ve effed up the ME in the past few years, the Russians couldn’t do any worse.
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