Yes, play on his "communistic" hatred there, Ricter. Well played. It's not the Russian analysis. It's everyone else's besides us, the Saudis, the Qataris, Turks and maybe the French. I maintain, if the evidence is so damning against Assad, where is it?
regardless of the gas evidence. the time to act on the red line with other options has passed. Now, there are only 2 choices do nothing or take over or ensure a good regime change. Anything less should be off the table to any intelligent politician. Anything discussed or done otherwise is just evidence of stupidity or corruption.
Has anyone in the admin? I'm having a huge problem with this entire episode because we can't even get to the bottom of Benghazi through the stonewall of this admin, and now we want to attack a Russian client state?! On top of that, AQ sides with the rebels. Didn't we learn a fucking thing from OBL blowback when we backed their fight against the Russians back in Afghanistan years ago?
Obama has been decimating our nuke deterrent and our military. Putin is old school KGB. Assad is his ally. Are you sure you want to gamble that he is bluffing?
Putin has been more like a flea up in Obama's nutsack, and now he can also be referred to as a tool. Obama has some great choices here. A. Let Putin clean that shit up, like he promises to. B. Keep on scaring the shit out of Vladdy and Assad by breathing down their necks, showing his guns. Just because someone says "I'm going to shoot", doesn't necessarily mean they are planning to. Is it inconceivable that Obama may actually be smart enough to bluff? It's not like he doesn't have the chips to back it up. His wagers have to be taken seriously and everyone knows it. Look. It's actually working. Russians are resilient, but they are no military superpower either. They're in worse shape now than they were as the Soviet Union, and we would have cleaned their clocks then had it come down to it. Why do you think they collapsed to the degraded state they are in? It's because their bullshit wasn't working for them, and it still isn't. Their greatest weapon has always been their propaganda machine, which Putin is highly trained in. Putin and Assad know that the best defense from an American attack is to have the entire democracy against it. Who knows what Assad is doing to get his comrade Vladdy to plea with the Americans, but I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with affordable health care. It could just be that Putin owes Assad too many favors. They are scared of this man, and why wouldn't they be? He's capable of inflicting some pretty severe damage if he feels the need. And BTW, I wouldn't start the mass printing of Grandluxe quotes onto t-shirts just yet. After all, when Obama makes the best choice, and Syria is Putin's pile of shit to deal with; as you have said- Who can blame him for it? hmmm...
Perhaps you might consider heading on over to spend some man-time with the regime. By the look of those nipples, though, you may want to pack a sweater if you're to be trolliping in the mountain streams with ol' Vladdy.