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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Correct, John, he is killing ISIS fighters to help his pal Assad, not because it's the right thing to do. You are 100% correct. But I think some of the people Putin is fighting, really are ISIS, no? Some of them are non-terrorists who want to get rid of Assad, but some are genuinely ISIS I thought?
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Sadly the majority Putin is killing is Anti-Asad people. He calls them ISIS in order to taint world opinion against the anti-Asad folks. Syria is Game of Thrones in real life. ISIS was not in Allepo
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/w...e-working.html
ISW has perhaps the best and most unvarnished reporting of what is happening in Syria
http://iswresearch.blogspot.com/search/label/Syria
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
"Jim - this only happens when Republican governments do it. After bush, for 8 years, there was no recruitment. BOOM in January it started again"
It really is amazing that anyone could say that with a straight face. The POTUS is supposed to be cordial to terrorists, so that they can't use his speeches as recruiting tools.
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The /sarc was silent, understood