Obama says Russia's action in Syria is 'recipe for disaster'

US government recipe for the last few of decades "Were Really Disasters", look at Iraq and Afghanistan just naming 2.

You left Libya out of it Joe.

As an American I prefer US involvement over Russian. Less death and destruction with rebuilding and full intent to hand back the nations when stable. Russia....not a chance of any of the above.

Yes because ISIS is moderate ally sure Obama what ever you say freaking hypocrite.

'As an American I prefer US involvement over Russian. Less death and destruction with rebuilding and full intent to hand back the nations when stable. Russia....not a chance of any of the above.'

Iraq was a very good example of minimal death and destruction and a brilliantly planned and executed idea for rebuilding. Iraqis to this day are reaping the benefits.

@MarkG

As an American I prefer US involvement over Russian. Less death and destruction

I can understand your patriotism, but your "less death" thing looks extremely misplaced. US forces have killed tens (or may be hundreds) of thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis and Libyans. And compare Iraq in 2003, before US invasion, Libya in 2011, before US invasion, with present situation in both countries. I really doubt that two the dozens of Russian warplanes in Syria will do anything even close to this US "achievement".

Two words that describe our Middle East Strategy: Epic Failure

"From their perspective, they're all terrorists. And that's a recipe for disaster", Barack Hussein Obama said. So, from his perspective, there are 'bad' and 'good' terrorists in Syria. Nice attitude. I think the real disaster took place when ISIS thugs were cutting throats of innocent hostages from all parts of the world while Barack Hussein had fun together with Michelle and daughters on various resorts. Let the Russians bomb all kind of terrorists in Syria and may Allah sort them into 'bad' and 'good' camps, just post mortem.

So should the recipe have the ingredients used in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Pakistan? Or maybe the ingredients being used in Syria so far? There's nothing edible about these recipes!

Whose disaster? Obviously Mr Obama is very furious over his imminent deaparture of white house with his failures including 'Syria'!

Washington could still work with Moscow on reducing tensions.

If the Commander in retreat hadn't been so reluctant, it would read- "Moscow could still work with Washington on reducing tensions." No strategy this guy, so now he's getting played like a milton bradley game as the global community looks on.

Obama accused Moscow of “propping up a regime that is rejected by an overwhelming majority of the Syrian population.”

How misguiding. Obama wouldn't have dared to intervene in syria (besides training a few rebels) for fear of Iran (syrian's ally) and the nuclear deal not going through.

Oh, but it did. Now the iranians will have millions in unfrozen assets to assist Assad. Not, to mention the iranians are already on board with the russians in syria's outcome. The US will have zero credibility, obama made sure of that.

the U.S. and its "moderate" allies have done such a bang-up job in Afghanistan and Iraq so far.

It ain't the US fault entirely when leaders like al-Maliki cannot govern their own country and different sects of islam blow each other to bits on a daily basis throughout ME.

If only they could bring the same stability to Syria.

Prob not. But at least the US is opening it's doors to 200,000 of them. Which is a mistake, imo, but it's the gesture that counts.

Watching Putin yank BO(ZO) and Kerry around like puppets on a string is sickeningly embarrassing. How on earth did this clueless and incompetent idiot get to be commander in chief?

Many of the posters on these articles either voted for him or would have if they could have CJ.

Are you kidding? Kerry is a has been. Has been a bozo since him and Edward's failed presidential campaign.

If the Commander in retreat hadn't been so reluctant, it would read- "Moscow could still work with Washington on reducing tensions." No strategy this guy, so now he's getting played like a milton bradley game as the global community looks on.

Hate to admit it, as someone who voted for Obama this last time, but Wc626 is spot on. Obama has been a disaster in regards to foreign policy, especially dealing with Putin/Russia. Just a few years back he famously stated that Russia was nothing more than a "regional power". Well now that same country is making the U.S. look silly and weak at every turn. And all Obama can do is trot out more clever phrases "recipe for disaster". And while Bush's "ready, fire, aim" approach had huge flaws -- think Iraq -- Obama's "paralysis by analysis" approach is equally as bad.

Yes, you're Right Mr. President because your too weak.

MarkGOCT. 03, 2015 - 11:14AM JST Many of the posters on these articles either voted for him or would have if they could have CJ.

Yes, I voted for Obama but that does not mean I have approve of all his actions. Fact is, 80% of the reasons I voted for him, he has not kept his promise.

What goes around, comes around. Russia will regret this on various levels.

@stormcrow "Russia will regret this on various levels".

Say, new set of economical sanctions for bombing those 'good', pro-western terrorists.

Show me recent videos of the US and its Saudi "allies" striking IS targets. I haven't seen any and I doubt there are any. Instead of moaning, Obama can give us concrete evidence of what he is doing to combat IS, if he has any.

@yamashi

Who knows what'll work at this point. Red lines, pink lines, striped lines... But it looks like the Russians have jumped right smack dab into the middle of this mess and are sayin', "Hand over that tar-baby! We're not going to let you guys have all the fun without us." Seriously, who in their right mind would want to wrap their arms around this mess? Putin must be cracked. BTW, wouldn't you say that Russia has now officially earned the right to accept a good portion of those unwanted Syrian refugees now?

BTW, wouldn't you say that Russia has now officially earned the right to accept a good portion of those unwanted Syrian refugees now?

Good point stormcrow. Since the russians & syrians have those long ties, those 200,000 (headed to the US) can do an A'bout-face 180 and head to Moscow for all I care.

Obama can give us concrete evidence of what he is doing to combat IS, if he has any.

If it turned out that the US hasn't actually been doing anything, that would be great. We'd find out that the US had in fact been doing the right thing, even if they were saying they were doing the wrong thing.

A "disaster"?

That is rich coming from the president whose policy in Libya, Tunesia, Egypt, and Syria has been been a continous disaster.

And to see that he doubles down on the fairy tale of moderate terrorists instead of facing reality is just astounding.

@stormcrow"the right to accept a good portion of those unwanted Syrian refugees now"

Not sure if those 'unwanted refugees' are really Syrians. You see, Syrians fight in their country against rebels and ISIS mob. On the other hand many covert agents of Al-Qaeda infiltrate Europe, having false Syrian passports. I think that Putin is not that much stupid to allow them to come in Russia.

think that Putin is not that much stupid to allow them to come in Russia.

Yeah but unfortunately, (Beavis and Butthead) obama & Kerry are.

Not sure if those 'unwanted refugees' are really Syrians.

C'mon. You know they are Syrian. . . the Greek authorities will confirm that all day long. Sure there are some pakistanis, afghans and others. But not an overwhelming majority.

Yamanashi:

" Not sure if those 'unwanted refugees' are really Syrians. "

Current figures from Germany say about half are Syrians. The others are mainly from Albania, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Eritrea. Fundamentally, this looks like a giant islamic settlement program (hijra).

I don´t think the US experience will be different.

@Wc626"C'mon. You know they are Syrian".

Not sure. Most Syrians are Christians. Those who threw bottles and stones into Hungarian police shouted 'Allah Akbar!'.

"But not an overwhelming majority."

They need not to form crowd for their destructive actions.

Are you certain? Sunni muslims already account for 74% of the population. . . .

I know a Syrian family in southern CA (they own an AM/PM Gas Station/Convenience Store) they're muslims.

@yamashi

"Most Syrians are Christians"

Apart from the other 90 per cent.

Russian now can't pull out , Either kill them all and not a single refugee to russia should be accepted

NB: Russian soldier who participated in that war in case of victory never be back to russian homeland , he will affect others by his aggressive mentality

@yamashi. (Sorry no links. You just gota trust me, lucabrasi and the Greek Coast Guard on this one.)

You see, Syrians fight in their country against rebels and ISIS mob.

Some of them. But the young healthy bearded men fled too (when they could've stayed to fight), along with women and children. Perhaps they didn't wish to become added casualties. Added to the 1/4 million syrians killed to date.

But where's their pride? Not only are they becoming increasingly unwelcome, they're speaking german now and wearing 2nd-3rd hand donated clothes.

qwertyjapan looks @ the glass 1/2 full. True, the bombings, killings & maimings go on and on.

Yet, the innocent, the women and children of syria (even some young muslim well-to-do bearded men) flee to western like societies set up by "idiots", but which have managed to prosper from WW2 ashes.

Yeehaw. About 200,000 are coming to america. It'd be better if ME get it's act together, lest they be idiots too.