Once again Russian President Vladimir Puten has managed to outfox and blindside the Obama administration with his quick and decisive move to put Russian military forces in Syria to bolster the Assad regime, and his moves today to begin bombing, not ISIS as he claims, but rather the American-backed forces fighting the Assad regime. No doubt he feels he can get away with this because of the history of indecision, waffling, and strategic confusion displayed by the administration since the beginning of this Syrian civil war - not to mention the indecision, waffling, and strategic confusion the administration has shown in the Ukrainian situation.
It is clear that President Obama and his advisers are out of their depth here, not least because they are apparently ignoring the advice of the military commanders (who predicted, for example, that his pitiful plan to train a few thousand Syrian rebels wouldn't work - they never got but a few hundred signed up, and those were all but wiped out in their first encounter with ISIS).
It would be nice if I thought any of the current presidential contenders would be any better at this. I don't.
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