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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 07:47 PM Jul 2014

Obama's Foreign Policy Is Forming Alliances We Never Thought Possible

Here’s how quickly things can change in the volatile Middle East: Less than one year ago, President Barack Obama considered airstrikes against military targets held by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after a chemical weapons attack killed as many as 1,400 people in the capital.

Now, the Obama administration is reportedly considering entering a de facto alliance with the Assad regime amid another pressing crisis in the region.

The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin reported last week that some in the Obama administration are pushing to move it away from its stated goal of regime change in Syria. The administration would do this in favour of working with the Assad regime in the Middle East to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and other Sunni extremists, who have caused the crisis in Iraq to bubble over in recent weeks.

“Anyone calling for regime change in Syria is frankly blind to the past decade; and the collapse of eastern Syria, and growth of Jihadistan, leading to 30 to 50 suicide attacks a month in Iraq,” one senior Obama administration official who works on Iraq policy told Rogin.

In fact, in Iraq, the United States could soon find itself working on the same side as four normally unfriendly foes: the Assad regime; Iran, Assad’s primary backer and the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism; Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese proxy group; and Russia, with whom the U.S. is sparring over its continued stirring of unrest in Ukraine.

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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/obama-foreign-policy-alliances-syria-assad-iran-2014-7

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Obama's Foreign Policy Is Forming Alliances We Never Thought Possible (Original Post) Purveyor Jul 2014 OP
trying to put this in context with the raging immigration conspiracy theory SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2014 #1
That's what happens when you try to create your own reality. bemildred Jul 2014 #2
You can Karl Rove some of the world some of the time, but you can't Karl Rove the whole world yurbud Jul 2014 #3
subtle, intelligent, and a huge improvement on redruddyred Jul 2014 #4

SleeplessinSoCal

(8,992 posts)
1. trying to put this in context with the raging immigration conspiracy theory
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 08:47 PM
Jul 2014

So much tension in the world and Alex Jones starts a conspiracy about the children pooring across our borders that Rick Perry grabs and runs with to cable news. I'd prefer to deal with these issues based on facts on the ground. Sadly, the partners the U S is cultivating in the rest of the world seem less believable than Perry's wacked out conspircy theory today.

I want to club these people with truth. But I find mostly silence where truth ought to be.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
2. That's what happens when you try to create your own reality.
Sun Jul 6, 2014, 09:14 PM
Jul 2014

Things stop happening the way you "thought" they would.

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
3. You can Karl Rove some of the world some of the time, but you can't Karl Rove the whole world
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 01:07 AM
Jul 2014

ever.

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
4. subtle, intelligent, and a huge improvement on
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 08:10 AM
Jul 2014

the kneejerk "let's invade" reaction. good luck to you president obama.

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