In direct conflict with Russian forces? Not good, not smart, not justified.
ISIS backup because they are getting slaughtered by people who are armed and can actually fight back.
Obama hasn’t got a clue and has no interest in listening to those who do have a clue. I imagine Valerie is advising him.
Perhaps this will calm a few who fear we are about to get into a shooting war with Russia. The link below carries the title “Syria conflict: Russia warns US of ‘proxy war risk’.” Russian Foreign Minister said the following after meeting with Kerry and others: Mr Lavrov said the US had decided on its move “unilaterally and without any reference to the Syrian leadership”. He added: “I am convinced that neither the United States nor Russia of course want any kind of slide into a so-called proxy war. But to me it is obvious that this situation makes the task of co-operation between the militaries even more relevant.”
So it sounds as though we did get the Russian’s attention with this move. Personally, I think Putin just wants to not appear irrelevant rather than to get into any nasty, costly war with the US. We all need to remember the Spanish Civil War to avoid those mistakes. Since the Russians were fully engaged in Spain, they probably learned those lessons better than we did.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34685183
This link has more than a dozen additional recent links about the Syria and/or Russia situation. Plan to read more tomorrow to sharpen my conjectures.