Obama couldn't repeat in Syria what he did in Libya because Putin told Obama to stick his "red line" up his a$$.
Today, Putin protects Syria to the point of allowing a military base in the country. Plus, Russian troops are fighting ISIS in Syria.
Furthermore, ISIS was not 'born' in Iraq. It was born in Benghazi, Libya, thanks to Obama and Clinton. Our compliant media went along with Obama's order to stay out of Libya while he softened Gaddafi's military. Two weeks promised became 6 months plus.
What puzzles me about Dexter and Godzilla et al....the evidence of Obama's actions and deeds clearly prove that he wants ALL dictators deposed...Libya, Iraq and Syria. I'd include Egypt, but Obama's butt buddies...the Muslim Brotherhood were defeated by the Egyptian military in a successful coup, ultimately defining the MB as a terrorist organization. Obama WANTS an Islamic State controlled by Teheran, Iran.
The USA is NOT an occupier force.
We had the entire world behind us when we entered Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein. Bush's way of giving thanks was to structure an agreement that we would leave a residual military in Iraq until it was proven that free elections could work and the centuries old rival between clans would cool down.
They had to pick a date, so why not 2011?
Soon as Maliki demanded American soldiers answer to Iraqi law and courts, Obama pounced on it as a way to leave Iraq defenseless.
WTF is so difficult for some of us in here to comprehend that?
Russia has had a military base in Syria since 1971. ISIS was not a cover for Russia to build one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_TartusAnd ISIS originated from wealthy Gulf states funding Al-Quada aligned resistance groups in Syria... while we starved the secular groups of funds and equipment. Benghazi was a 'too little, too late' attempt to remedy that.
And we really didn't have great support for our invasion of Iraq. We had a coalition, but outside of the UK - there was only token support. Compare that to the coalition we had with the first Gulf war. Furthermore, France, Russia, and China opposed us. Again, compare that to the first Gulf War, where Russia and China didn''t oppose our invasion.
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And I'm here to correct the factual inaccuracies in people's statements. If that calls your original thesis into question, you might want to rethink it.