With a vacuum of leadership on the world stage, Moscow has gotten its way over Syria, propping up the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad.
3. The author destroys his credibility with this one statement. By any objective measure, the U.S. was on the wrong side of that debacle. In fact, the situation in Syria offered strong evidence that our foreign policy is fouled up from top to bottom -- because it's become obvious the U.S. has provided support for radical Islamic elements to thwart Russian interests around the globe. I'll offer the idiotic military and foreign policy moves in Kosovo, Chechnya (one of our best-kept secrets is that the terrorists who carried out the Beslan massacre had strong support here in the U.S. government), Iraq, Egypt and Syria as cases in point.
Have you considered relocating yourself to live in Russia so that you can get all the benefits of Putin’s moral authority?
I agree with your points. It seems to me that the neocons all over simply want the U.S. to act so they can point out how dovish the admin is. I have yet to see any real explanation, that involves the security of the U.S., as to why we should get more involved.