So, when they aren’t busy slaughtering Christians, our proxies are fighting Russia’s proxies.
We arm them, train them, fund them, and send special forces to help organize them, but we don’t have any influence over them to get them to quit killing Christians.
You can see why Obama doesn’t dare ask permission to do what he is doing. What I can’t figure is why no one dares to call him on it.
Probably because there’s bipartisan support for oppressing Eastern Orthodox Christians, and has been since Clinton’s Balkan adventures. McCain is virulently pravoslavniphobic.
Even Ted Cruz (and this is one of the reasons my suppport for him is only with reservations) is clueless about the state of Christians in the Middle East — big gaffe telling a group of Middle Eastern Christians (who are almost all Ba’athists) that “Israel is the best friend Christians have in the Middle East.” Actually, indigenous Christian populations are treated better by the governments of both Lebanon and Syria than Christians are in Israel, as are Christian guest-workers in Qatar, and that applied when Cruz made his remarks.