U.S. Diplomats Are Defeating The Militarists Inside The Obama Administration’

John Kerry (right) expressed his concerns to Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. (Reuters: Brendan Smialowski)

Patrick Smith, Fiscal Times: Obama’s New Pivot to Russia on Syria and What It Means

Yet another “pivot,” as the Obama administration insists on calling its many foreign policy reversals--this one in its strategy in Syria. In less than a week, the president did a 180, jumping on Russia for an apparent new military initiative against the Islamic State to opening “a mil to mil conversation,” as Secretary Kerry called it in London Friday, to coordinate with Moscow at defense ministry level.

There are plenty of reasons to oppose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but this is not the time to insist that another “regime change” is essential to defeating ISIS and stabilizing Syria after four years of civil war.

WNU Editor: This is what U.S. foreign policy decline looks like .... I should know .... I personally saw how Soviet/Russian foreign policy went into disarray .... or should I say collapse ....  after the fall of the Soviet Union. 25 years later .... I now see history repeating itself but on the "other side". And while it is not as dramatic as what happened to the Soviet Union/Russia 25 years ago .... there are still many similarities.