Obama's Foreign Policy Is Forming Alliances We Never Thought Possible
Heres 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 Beasts 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, Assads primary backer and the worlds most active state sponsor of terrorism; Hezbollah, Irans 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
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,992 posts)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)Things stop happening the way you "thought" they would.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)ever.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)the kneejerk "let's invade" reaction. good luck to you president obama.