Pentagon Press Secretary:
“We believe helping Assad is counter productive to the fight against ISIS.. its just not logical”
The very definition of Doublethink.
What the hell has happened to this country?
Maybe you can get your online buddy to threaten to shoot him instead of Conservatives on FR.
Trumps said he supports letting Russia fight them instead of us in Syria.
“Russia needs to be threatened.”
Or joined. It depends.
There is a good case to be made that a pure defeat of ISIS is required by all civilized countries.
When Russia is accidentally on the right side of that fight, I wouldn’t take that as a reason to threaten them. That Russia is protecting Assad doesn’t mean we can be sanguine about ISIS. First, defeat ISIS. Then we can continue to discuss or prosecute war against Assad as necessary.
I would have taken Ukraine as a reason to threaten Russia.
So, theatre of battle matters. We should sometimes unite and sometimes oppose Russia, depending on the merits of the issue at hand.
No. Russia is simply doing what all countries do when led by a sane person: protecting their interests. (The USA is not currently led by a sane person.)
The biggest risk to the US regarding Syria is this: obama throws a homo hissy fit and gets us into a shooting war with Russia.
Looks like Trump’s foreign policy is already in effect.
You don’t know what you’re saying: Putin is the good guy in this.