Obama ‘skeptical’ about moderate Syrian rebel forces

Karatnycky and Motyl say: “By upping the ante in Syria he hopes to strike a grand bargain with Europe and the USA: They agree to his terms for the Donbas in exchange for Russia’s cooperation in the war against ISIL”.

Kroft: You said a year ago that the United States – America leads, we’re the indispensable nation.

Perhaps a leader who doesn’t define leadership, as Obama did in his interview, as “leading on climate change”. “Of course, there are risks, but let me say that these risks existed anyway, even before we began our operations in Syria”.

I believe one explanation for Mr. Obama’s comments to Mr. Kroft is that his Syria/Iraq policy is actually a non-policy to do a little as possible about these crises so he can hand them to the next president to solve. The headstrong president warned the ambassador that Russian Federation will cut all ties with Turkey unless Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stops facilitating the Islamic State in Syria, where Russian Federation holds its last navy base in the Mediterranean Sea, according to American News.

Gov. Chris Christie is now ginning up for a fight in Syria, threatening in his latest Fox News interview to shoot down Russian military planes and send in American troops to fight the Islamic State.

Obama’s efforts to reframe nearly every question and at times change the subject appeared to irk Kroft, who at one point remarked, “I feel like I’m being filibustered, Mr. President.”

However, a few military experts suggest teaming up with Assad, who has been attacked for crimes against his own people including targeting them with barrel bombs, is the only way to defeat the scourge of ISIS in the Middle East.

However this conflict ends, it must not involve Putin shoring up his partners, crushing ours, destroying our remaining credibility in the Middle East, and restoring Russian Federation as a major power in this vital region.

“Another circumstance I want to note in this respect is that all of this work involves advanced technology, and the tasks we are carrying out in the defence industry will push us into developing not just applied but also fundamental science and will have benefits for the entire economy”. My goal has been to try to test the proposition, can we be able to train and equip a moderate opposition that’s willing to fight ISIL?

Obama: No, I, I, I’m happy to talk about it. (By contrast, the British Royal Air Force has been given the green light to shoot down hostile Russian jets in Syria.) So give our pilots strict rules and declare that Russia’s strategy isn’t working.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) slammed the Obama administration Tuesday for its response to Russia’s military buildup in Syria, saying the White House is “floundering”.

“I think that there are places, obviously, like Syria, that are not safer than when I came into office”, he noted, before pivoting to his multilateralist approach. The situation in Afghanistan is very precarious and the Taliban is on the march again.

After interrupting one another, during which Kroft said that Obama’s critics argue the president is “projecting a weakness, not a strength”, Obama turned the examples against these unnamed critics, singling out his opponents within the Republican Party.

Eyewitnesses claimed that there was a large explosion in Huraytan, northern Syria, while three fighter planes were seen overhead.

Fierce fighting in the key Hama village of Kafr Nabuda forced pro-regime forces to retreat and killed 25 of them, the Observatory said.

However, Obama is too strong for him.