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"This Week In The Middle East" by Gil Elan - Putin's Syria Strategy

"This Week In The Middle East" by Gil Elan, President and CEO of Southwest Jewish Congress.

At the opening plenum session of the UN General Assembly on Monday, President Obama said that any resolution in Syria must include the removal of Bashar Al-Assad as president. President Putin, in his speech, insisted that Assad was not the problem and that his exit would enable the Sunni Jihadists, mainly ISIS and Al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat Al-Nusra, to take over the country.

Putin's argument has merit. Obama's incessant calls for the removal of Assad is a continuation of the well-intended but totally naive, misguided and eventually disastrous US policy during the so-called "Arab Spring" of assisting with the overthrow of secular, stabilizing, pro-Western dictators in favor of "democratic elections". And we all know how that turned out.


Read the complete article at -- http://swjcdallas.blogspot.com/2015/09/putins-syria-strategy.html

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