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Friday, October 2, 2015


Obama Accuses Russia Of Strengthening ISIS

He called Putin's strategy in Syria "a recipe for disaster."


Jessica Schulberg Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post

Posted: 10/02/2015 04:39 PM EDT | Edited: 8 minutes ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-russia-syria-assad_560ed8d4e4b0af3706e0c00f

CREDIT: ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS United States President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President President Vladimir Putin at the U.N. General Assembly, two days before Russia began airstrikes over Syria. 
NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama on Friday criticized Russia's recent airstrikes over the Syrian city of Homs as a dead-end strategy that will ultimately empower the Islamic State militant group.
Speaking from the White House, Obama accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of failing to differentiate between Islamic State extremists and moderate groups who oppose the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“That’s a recipe for disaster. And one that I reject," said Obama, adding that Russia's targeting of moderate opposition groups will encourage foreign fighters to join the conflict and draw the Russians into a quagmire. The Russian bombing of Homs, which is controlled by anti-Assad forces, targeted the Free Syrian Army, an opposition group that has received training from the U.S. to fight the Islamic State.
The remarks are the president's first foray into the escalating battle of rhetoric about the Syrian civil war that has pitted the U.S. and its allies against the Assad regime and one of its key backers, Russia.
Despite his criticism of Russia's intervention, Obama reiterated his willingness to work with Russia and Iran, the other major backer of the Assad regime, to negotiate the Syrian dictator's transition out of power.
Shortly before Obama’s remarks, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem took the U.N. General Assembly stage in New York and thanked Russia for its “effective participation in the support of the Syrian efforts in combating terrorism." He framed the Assad regime’s war against its people as a noble effort to quell terrorism --  a message similar to the one Putin conveyed on the same stage earlier in the week.

Associated Press Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem hand in hand in January 2014.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that the strikes “do not go beyond ISIL, [Jabhat] al-Nusra or other terrorist groups recognized by the United Nations Security Council or Russian law.” The Islamic State is also known as ISIS or ISIL.
However, the Pentagon has confirmed that the area hit by Russia is not an ISIS stronghold. Earlier this week, White House press secretary Josh Earnest questioned Russia's claim that the airstrikes were intended to fight terrorism.
The Syrian National Coalition, which represents the FSA and several other opposition groups, told reporters earlier this week that all 36 people killed by Russia’s airstrikes were civilians. “They are there to uphold a regime that lost its legitimacy, that only controls 14 percent of the land in Syria,” Dr. Najib Ghadbian, the group’s U.S. representative. said at the U.N. Wednesday. “That was proven today.”
Earlier on Friday, the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey issued a joint statement calling on Russia to narrow its airstrikes to strictly target ISIS fighters. (Notably absent from the list of signatories were Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, two of the U.S.' main allies in the bombing campaign against ISIS.)
While Russian and American defense officials have met to discuss ways to avoid accidental confrontations in an increasingly crowded Syrian airspace, it is unlikely the Russians will heed the targeting advice.
Lavrov pointed out to reporters on Thursday that the U.S. operation against relies on a 2001 war authorization that allows for the use of force against al-Qaeda and “affiliated forces.” In the absence of a new congressional authorization of force, the Obama administration has said the 2001 mandate allows it to target ISIS and al-Nusra in Syria, arguing that those groups are offshoots of al-Qaeda.
In response to a question about who -- in addition to ISIS -- the Russians see as legitimate targets in Syria, Lavrov said, “If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist."

COMMENT:

IF THE PRESIDENT WOULD NOT ACCUSE RUSSIA THEN HOW WOULD THE WORLD KNOW THAT ISRAEL'S MOST POISONOUS COBRA NETANYAHU THE TRAITOR HAS BITTEN THE PRESIDENT TWICE THIS SINGLE YEAR.

IT IS TRUE THAT RUSSIA IS ENEMY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD BUT TODAY WHAT  US HAD BEEN DOING THAT MADE  ISRAEL SO WILD IS BY USING THE VETO POWER HAS ALMOST DRAGGED US TO THE DOOR STEP OF RUSSIAN BRUTES.

NETANYAHU AND RUSSIAN SPY PUTIN ARE COLD WAR DAYS BOSOM FRIENDS. BOTH ARE OF THE SAME DYNASTY OF POISONOUS COBRA SNAKE.WHAT BETTER ONE CAN EXPECT OF THEM.

ON THE OTHER HAND WHEN KNOWING FULLY WELL THE DEN OF SNAKES AND THE PARTICULAR SNAKE OF ISRAEL WHAT BEST CAN ONE EXPECT  FROM THEM THOSE WHO CALLS THEM MOST TRUSTED ALLY OF MID EAST AND BEST FRIENDS..

NOW THAT THE BEST FRIEND POISONOUS COBRA HAS BITTEN THE CALLER OF BEST FRIEND SHOULD UNDERSTAND HOW DANGEROUS IT HAS BECOME WHEN IN THOSE DAYS WHY THESE SNAKES WERE KICKED OUT OF OWN HEARTH.

 AND HOW DANGEROUS IT HAS AGAIN BECOME AFTER US PICKED UP FROM THE  STREETS AND ADOLF HITLER THE GREAT KICKED THESE ZIONISTS  SNAKES OUT OF  NOT ONLY GERMANY BUT FROM ENTIRE EUROPE THAT STARTED TO BITE THE FRIENDS NOW..

IT NOW UP TO THE BEST FRIENDS TO SEPARATE FROM FRIENDSHIP OR GET BITTEN TO DEATH IS THE ONLY CHOICE EITHER WAYS FOR BOTH FRIENDS.

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