“Syria doesn’t mind”
I don’t know its current state, but Syria had Russia’s most up-to-date anti-air systems. I read they could shoot down F-16’s flying low. Israel has been launching glider bombs from Lebanese air space. But ISIS is in the other side of Syria. So, air missions would be fraught with danger to the pilots and political risk for the president. (He’s not a big political risk taker.) I suppose drones are an option, but what is really needed if we’re serious is troops on the ground. I’d say, hell no!
Also, we can’t count on Turkey who is clearly supporting ISIS. As a matter of fact, we should be clearing out of Turkey so we don’t lose people and equipment when the finally declare their real intentions.
I get it that we're arming the Kurds, but I'd rather the weapons be under the control of US personnel. What happens if Turkey and the Kurds get it on over their border? Turkey's in NATO, so it could get weird.
What the Affirmative Action Anus is unable to see through his Muslim glasses is that the "rebels" are jihadist scum who massacre Christians wherever they can find them. That's just as his cousin and ally Raila Odinga's people did in Kenya in 2006.
Assad is not attractive, OK? But he is not going to surrender his country ... and it is his ... to Muslim swine who would obliterate his people, The Christians of one of the oldest Churches of the Gospel in the world, and anyone else they consider an Infidel. The Syrians are an effective force, supported and trained by the Russians to use highly sophisticated weapons and are more or less wiping out the jihadist "rebels."
So, for Obama to crack down on ISIS, which exists in Iraq only because the Syrian Army has chased these disgusting devils out of their country, he would have to work with Assad. An ideologically driven pro-Muslim, Obama cannot bring himself to do that.