Note, just pointing out the pathetic failures and lack of leadership from this President and administration...from Hillary's pathetic damn 'reset' prop that contained the word 'overcharge' in stead of 'reset' on it in Russia...to Hillary selling 1/5th of the US supply of Uranium to Russia...to Crimea...to Russia out-maneuvering him in Syria and destroying all of his tax-payer-funded rebels with whom Obama has been fighting a failed proxy war against Assad and Putin..
Fascinating- what are the Conservative alternatives? to all of those supposed failures?
What would you have done differently in Crimea
What would you have done differently in Syria?
I would repeat the answers to those questions, which you have heard before, but it would be a waste of time because you don't give a damn and will only mock them, no matter how much better they are and preferable to Obama's failures.
I will answer one - Syria.
Obama accused Assad of using WMD on his own people. Rather than wait to get definitive proof Obama foolishly issued his 'Red Line', threatening action if it was crossed again. WMD was used again. Evidence has since been obtained suggesting it was the rebels who used it both times in hopes the US would rush in militarily again and oust Assad.
Instead Obama cowardly backed down ... in front of the whole world ... showing our enemies and our allies alike he did not have the balls to back up what he says. 'So you would have gone to war?' NO, I would never have declared the Red Line to Begin with.
Obama then pathetically blamed the entire world for HIS 'Red Line', making him a laughing stock. Obama has been obsessed with Assad ever since, so obsessed that he failed to notice that when Iran and Russia rolled into Syria, setting up bases and protecting Assad, that it was too late for him to achieve his goal of ousting Assad.
Putin went about targeting and destroying the very rebels Obama was supplying, arming, and training to fight Assad in his 'proxy war'. The might of the Russian military was being used to fight and destroy 'rebels' - not professional soldiers. They never had a chance, but still Obama continued / continues in his obsessive goal of ousting Assad.
Syria was / is none of our problem. Once Obama was embarrassed in front of the world due to his 'Red line' debacle it should have been over. Obama would not let it be over. He was running weapons to 'Syrian Rebels' from Benghazi - weapons we know now were going also to ISIS. Obama blindly accepted the illusion that his funding, supplying, arming, and even training of some of these fighters was only for 'rebels' who would fight against Assad, blind to the fact that who he was also helping was ISIS!
It was reported we spent millions supplying, arming, and training 6 'rebels'...5 of whom immediately became ISIS fighters, taking all those weapons and supplies we had given to them with them. In our 'war' against ISIS Obama has been PROTECTING ISIS through ROEs that prevented coalition members from striking oil facilities and tankers - that supply 50% of ISIS' operations - and even some of their headquarters and other critical targets. WHY? In the hopes that ISIS inside Syria would somehow help overthrow Assad.
I am not even sure if Obama cares if ISIS takes over Syria as long as Assad falls. After all, he took the nation to war on his own and used our military to help Al Qaeida take down Qadaffi and take over Libya as their own.
If you can not...will not...see how Syria, Assad, and ISIS have all been a huge foreign policy COW PIE that we should NEVER have been involved in to begin with then you are blind. It all stared with chem weapons being used in Syria. Liberals always say the US is not the world's policemen. Where were they then when Obama stuck his nose right in the middle of Syria's civil war? This was the useless U.N.'s job to handle,
not ours. OBAMA stepped right in the middle of that cow pie, and we still have shite on all of our shoes because he did.
