U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Reuters/RIA Novosti)
Maajid Nawaz, Daily Beast: How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin
Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria. But those elements were nowhere to be found.
LONDON — The Middle East is in flames. Just as Iraq was President George W. Bush’s catastrophic legacy, Syria will be Obama’s. Bush’s sins of commission wrought no less chaos than Obama’s sins of omission. If the Stop the War lobby’s primary motive was to avoid civilian casualties, then by any standard they should slither away shamefully into voluntarily redundancy.
By latest human rights accounts, Syria’s five-year civil war has left 470,000 dead. To add to our disgrace, we don’t even know how accurate these figures are because—as if in despair—the United Nations gave up collecting statistics 18 months ago. Syria has spiraled into the biggest humanitarian, political and security challenge of our time. The Cuban Missile crisis of 2016.
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WNU Editor: The author of this commentary believes that Russia will fill the vacuum that the U.S. has created in the Middle East .... I am not sure. Russian resources and capabilities are limited and the Middle East is a region that will need massive help, resources, and expertise when all of these conflicts are over. But I have to give credit where credit is due .... Putin has certainly taken advantage of the situation with what little he has.
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Russias's biggest advantage is its' credibility. They do not ditch their allies as soon as Western countries do.
"Russias's biggest advantage is its' credibility. They do not ditch their allies as soon as Western countries do."
BINGO!
Obama lose?
Nay, he gave it away.
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