Posted on 10/02/2015 4:52:51 AM PDT by jimbo123
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John Kasich on Friday morning will advocate for certain areas of Syria to be designated as sanctuaries from violence for civilians and made no-fly zones given Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent decision to target Islamic State there with air strikes.
According to a statement provided to Reuters, the Ohio governor will say: "Russia's recent military build-up and intervention in Syria are neither intended to defeat ISIS nor to relieve the suffering of Syrian refugees. Mr. Putin's real goals are quite different: to take military action to rescue Assad's criminal government from its death and to strengthen Russia's strategic position in the Eastern Mediterranean. This is unacceptable and must stop."
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Obama isn’t going to fight
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He will never fight against anything regardless of the level of provocation. Putin knows this. He has measured Obama and found him weak and someone who will always retreat. Hence Russia’s aggressiveness in the region and in other areas around the world.
For Putin, its game on. All he see’s is a green light to do whatever he wants for the next 15 months.
And who do they intend to prevent from flying? I don’t know if the entire country of Syria is involved in the conflict, but if there are areas with little conflict, it might make sense to establish a safe zone for refugees, with Russian and Syrian cooperation. At least it might be possible to stem the movement of people out of the country if there are such areas that could be made safe zones.
Wondering why Kasich hasn’t dropped out of the race? He must have had a lot of money going in. Let’s hope he retires from politics once his term as governor is over.
The Russian are just doing the work that Americans don’t want to do.
“sanctuaries from violence for civilians”
You mean strongholds for ISIS and other fedgov sponsored jihadis?
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