It is sad that Obama, Clinton and Kerry have so messed up the Middle East with their “Arab Spring” that Vladimir Putin becomes the hero who brings order out of the chaos.
Putin, allies with Assad. His relations with Iran are improving. (Hey, you don’t see masses of people in the streets of Tehran shouting “Death to Putin! Death to Russia!”) Russia sees Syria as a strategic location. They have moved military to the Syrian border. Putin believes Obama’s fingers in the Middle East have left a vacuum that ISIS is filling. Putin is closely aligned with how many American conservatives view Obama’s bungling of it. More bungling on the next page.
From Putin’s UN speech:
Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?”
A report at Jihad Watch answers:
No, they don’t realize what they have done, and they’re poised to do more of it. And those of us who warned at the time that the “Arab Spring” would not lead to “the triumph of democracy and progress,” but to “violence, poverty and social disaster,” were dismissed and derided as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” And no matter how often the establishment analysts get things wrong, and disastrously, and fatally so, they never get called to account, and keep applying the same failed solutions.
Source: Jihad Watch
Bravo! Well said.
Two choices: Either the Obama regime, who encouraged what they named the “Arab Spring” knew exactly the fallout, and wanted to destabilize the Middle East. Or the Obama regime is delusional and really thought having “JV Team”, ISIS, fill the vacuum. That’s a good thing.
Whatever you think of Putin, he is right about Obama. No easy answers, but with pro-Arab apologists like Samantha Powers as Ambassador to the UN, a real confidante, who has the ear of the President, and was one of the architects of the Arab Spring, you can bet what happens next will be more of the same.
Perhaps after Putin is through eliminating ISIS over there, we can invite him here to take on the tens of thousands of Syrian Islamists that Obama is inviting in.
Obama is a trader he is for him self and no one else.
Says Putin who had bombed schools hospitals killed surgeons etc
Go back to Vietnam. Johnson rushed in 500,000 troops based on an event that never happened. Gulf of Tonkin was a lie! Bush overthrew Saddam because of WMD that were never found and all the evidence is pointing to Obama creating, funding and arming ISIS! Be careful what you wish for!
Nice try. Bush spearheaded the f**e wars that have destabilized the entire area.
Alex– only thing wrong with the story is that the Middle East was totally destabilized with the invasion of Iraq and death of Saddam Hussein. All because of our empirical desire by major oil companies. Obama didn’t destabilize it like your post depicts.
We also threw monkey wrench into the mess under Eisenhower when BP encouraged him to have a democratically elected ruler of Iran overthrown via our CIA influence and put in place the Shah of Iran. So much for our meddling.
Yup that’s right,Obama and Clinton did nothing from day one when isis moved down the road towards iraq,Obama should have carpet bombed the same day.
I’m no commie but putin makes more sense here than Bama has in 8 years
He, Obama, has no clue
8 more days of this Make Believe King of Hollywood.