Quote:This strikes me as an extremely dangerous situation.   Russia is bombing a US ally.   If the US responds directly, we are in a shooting war with Russia.  

 

On the other hand, this incident does raise a couple of questions.  

 

1) Why does the US have the right to go around exerting our will in other countries, and Russia doesn't have the same right? 

 

2) If we continue to undermine dictatorships in the middle east, as we did with Saddam Hussein, are we going to be faced with something far worse (ISIS)?   Say what you want about Saddam Hussein, at least he kept things under control.   Can we say the same about Assad? 

 

A bigger question would be "Why are we allied with terror groups in Syria?"

 

I agree with Eric. Let Russia take control of the situation. We started this mess by arming terrorists in Syria and we obviously have lost control. So the Russians are not bombing ISIS targets. So what? They are almost interchangeable, and the non-ISIS groups are typically backed by other terror groups like Al Qaeda or Muslim Brotherhood. The only reason the US is upset that Russia is bombing non-ISIS terrorists is because these terrorists we're supported by the US.  The fact they try and manipulate the media and the mass into believing they are "civilians" to garner sympathy is hogwash. This administrations handling of the middle-east is so terribly bad. Such a joke.

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