THE GLOBAL POWERPLAY - AS NATO BUILDS UP ITS FORCES ACROSS THE OLD IRON CURTAIN STATES TO STOP RUSSIA’S GRABBY HANDS OFF THESE NATIONS BACK INTO THE OLD SOVIET EMPIRE–THE PUTIN THROWS THE LEFTIST STYLE OF MISDIRECTION WITH ENCROACHMENT INTO SYRIA TO FIGHT THE IS BUT IN FACT THERE TO PROTECT IRAN AND BASHAR AL ASSAD IN POWER–A WIN WIN FOR THE RED OF RUSSIA–AS THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO GETS CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN FROM CRIMEA, UKRAINE, AND NOW SYRIA ONCE AGAIN

The Kremlin is not our friend. Nor is Moscow a 10-foot-tall threat to our national interests.

What America needs is a middling foreign policy that looks to marginalize Russia’s capacity to mess with us. And there is no better place to start this approach than in Syria.

Putin has made a muscular move to support besieged Syrian strongman Bashar Assad. It came after it was clear Congress couldn’t block the Iran nuclear deal. Coincidence? Probably not.

Russia and Iran have common cause in the Middle East. One of the regimes’ shared goals: getting Tehran out from under the heel of international sanctions.

The Iran deal will dump billions of dollars into Tehran’s coffers—enabling Tehran to do a lot more business with Russia.

Once President Obama effectively sidelined congressional opposition to the agreement, Russia and Iran moved on to Goal Two: Prop up the dictator in Damascus.

With permission to move through Iranian airspace, Russia shipped a tidal wave of “humanitarian support”—including tanks, troops, combat aircraft, and support facilities—to beef up Assad’s military might.

It was a thumb in the eye of the White House, which has insisted, quite publicly, that Assad’s departure is a prerequisite for solving the country’s seemingly intractable civil war.

Yet some argue that now’s the time to make a deal with Moscow. It goes like this: Refugees are flooding—and destabilizing—Europe; ISIS is running wild…so America and its friends in both regions could use Putin’s help to put out the fire.

The Kremlin likes that talk—if only because it distracts attention from Moscow’s meddling in Georgia, Ukraine, the Baltics, and other spots along its Central European border. But the argument simply is not realistic.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/02/two-important-truths-about-the-crisis-in-syria/