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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
One more point....love or hate Obama, if he hadn't of threatened military action does anyone seriously believe Russia would have got themselves involved?
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The "threat"
had nothign to do with Putin'S sudden initiative, even less so since Kerry and Oba,ma made it clear how weak the strikes were meant to be, how little they should do, how short they would last, and that one does not aim at anything they could precisely define any kind of objective that shoud,l be acheived at all. Whikle they outlined they wanted to "punish" Assad, whatevr they meant by that, they also made it clear that the punishement should not be decisive and should not make a real difference. Obama opened to Putin an opportunity to score - and so the Russians took the invitation. The Russians have a plan, but not regarding the chemical weapons. The weapons are just a tool of their plan, and the plan's intention is to stabilize Assad and deliver Obama's optimistically so-called "foreign policy" a humiliating defeat. After Obama's haughty lecturing of Putin some weeks ago, there was an open bill between the two to settle. Also, Obama's back-forth-zig-zag-strong-weak-yes-no approach on the issue opened a tasty, fat, vulnerable flank to Russian diplomacy to land a crushing blow and leave American reputation bleeding on the stage and showing unignorable (is there such a word?) signs of lacking orientation and weakness. MacCain and some Republicans see it correctly when accusing Obama of having made the US looking extremely weak. And that was the plan and intention of Putin. That he makes it look as if he is helping a friend and Obama and Kerry even must thank him in front of the cameras, makes the revenge just that precious little bit
sweeter.
There is no virtue in showing weakness, or being weak. Weakness is weakness, and it absolutely is nothing more than just that. I do not judge here whether the US are weak or not. I just say Obama does his best with his confused politics to make the US appearing weaker than was said the US would be after the 4 years of Carter. And that is completely Obama's very own fault. From the POV of an empire that the US are, the man is a foreign political disaster. And that already was to be seen years ago when he lowered his trousers and submissively bent over to the Muslim world in Cairo. From that speech on, the man had lost any remaining benefit of doubt as far as my view of him is concerned.