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2015-10-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Don't Chase Putin Out of Syria ‐ Let Him Fail On His Own

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Has this piece been written by the white house?

Agree with Blossom

Posted by paul 2015-10-10 01:24|| 2015-10-10 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Putin wages war.
Obama wages PR.

The difference between modern warfare and primitive warfare. The former is gearing one's entire means to achieve victory, the other is a display of bravado with some throwing of spears and words/sounds trying to intimidate an opponent (regardless of the modernity of the tools and equipment).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-10 05:36|| 2015-10-10 05:36|| Front Page Top

#3 'Great Powers don't have friends. They only have interests.'

Otto Von Bismark from memory

Posted by phil_b 2015-10-10 05:37|| 2015-10-10 05:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Has this piece been written by the white house?

Close. The author is a former Defense official from the current Administration. He's now with the German Marshal Fund, a think tank. Its roster and Board appears to be loaded with names who used to work in the current Administration, plus a sprinkling of former "centrist" Democratic politicians and a Washington Post staffer or two.

Oh, and those aren't Blossom's inlines; the ~~pink~~ salmon commentary is Dr. Steve's.

Posted by Pappy 2015-10-10 08:58|| 2015-10-10 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure back in the day somebody penned a short on how Hannibal retreated into south Italy out of weakness.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-10 09:27|| 2015-10-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Obamawages PR.

He doesn't have to. The MSM does it for him.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-10 09:49|| 2015-10-10 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 ...They're his tools (in many senses of the word).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-10 09:51|| 2015-10-10 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 >The Saudis have their own financial worries, and no one sees Obama giving Stingers to anybody...<

Well, there is that rumor about Benghazi....

Posted by davemac25 2015-10-10 10:56|| 2015-10-10 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, there is that rumor about Benghazi....

Those were ~~Russian~~ Soviet MANPADS, not Stingers, if the sources are correct.

Posted by Pappy 2015-10-10 11:27|| 2015-10-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

#10 So am I hearing here that this is all some geopolitical chess game between Putin and Obama? Why then, are we losing sleep over Syria while giving Iran nuclear weapons? If you wanna get tough with Putin, forget Syria. Forget Ukraine. Bomb Iran.

If you want allies in that region concentrate on worthy allies like Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Forget the rest of those weasels. They aren't worth it...to us or Russia. If oil is the big deal then why did we stay in Afghanistan and abandon Iraq? None of this makes any sense.

Oh. You think maybe Obama's plan is to turn Iran from Russia back to the West like in the old days with the Shah? Good luck with that. Bomb the bastards.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-10-10 14:51|| 2015-10-10 14:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Ah yes.

"Masterly inactivity ftw."

Posted by charger 2015-10-10 20:06|| 2015-10-10 20:06|| Front Page Top

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