Posted on 10/03/2015 5:52:37 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Three days into its bombing campaign in Syria, Russia on Friday at last targeted Islamic State positions, striking at the defacto capital of the terror organization and at least one other site.
The Russian strikes at the Islamic State came after two days in which its aircraft attacked locations belonging to other fighting groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, including CIA-supported rebels, sparking calls for the Obama administration to do something to protect fighters it had trained and equipped.
But President Barack Obama made clear that the U.S. had no plans to deepen its role in Syria.
Were not going to make Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia, Obama said at a White House press conference. That would be bad strategy on our part.
He also rejected calls he should act to preserve U.S. credibility and influence.
This is not some, you know, superpower chess board contest, and anybody who frames it in that way isnt paying very close attention to whats been happening on the chess board, he said.
But there were signs that U.S. influence over events in Syria was eroding, with the Kurdish militia that has been Washingtons closest ally on the ground there extending a public welcome to Russia and offering to fight alongside Russia against the Islamic State. It also asked Moscow for weapons.
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If the U.S. and Russia wre both training actually trying to defeat ISIS, then how is that proxy war? Answer, ISIS is a US ally under this administration.
The Kurds have been doing rather well at fighting the Islamist lunatics. The Kurds courage is to be commended.
Could be. Whereas Newt told them all they were entitled to was the pursuit of happiness, Bush Sr’s “compassionate conservatism” was supposed to give the GOP a more socialist image, seeing government as savior of first resort. Things ain’t been right since.
View this report with skepticism. There are two Kurdish groups. Both fighting ISIS. One (communist endoctrinated) is also engaged in creating a separate Kurdish state and against both Syrian (Assad) and Turkish governments. The other, Peshmerga is the name of the group affilliated with the Kurdish state in Iraq which is not involved .
The Bush administration's callous abandonment of the Kurds will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the long history of broken promises by both the United States and Britain
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/Betrayal_Kurds.html
“When did we fall down the rabbit hole?”
The hole was dug by R.M. Nixon. Since then it has been a process of cramming every thing down it, until Zippy got to push the remaining bits in and shovel the hole over.
Heh-—love your caption....sounds more and more like dumbheads Susan Rice and Marie Harf are taking a stab at geopolitics....while our lives hang in the balance.
Hope the world remembers there is a big difference between the Bozo and the real people of the USA!
“seedy, wheezing old plug”
That would describe Hillary, Biden, and Bernie.
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