{"id":6139,"date":"2015-03-02T06:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2015-03-02T06:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:36:15","slug":"obama-prioritizes-weakening-russia-over-weakening-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"Obama Prioritizes Weakening Russia, Over Weakening ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/obama-prioritizes-weakening-russia-weakening-isis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Prioritizes Weakening Russia, Over Weakening ISIS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Michael Snyder\u00a0<a title=\"noted at Global Research on March 1st\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/is-barack-obama-actually-trying-to-help-the-islamic-state-isis-to-take-over-syria\/5434251\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">noted at Global Research on March 1st<\/span><\/a>, that the U.S. is now air-dropping weapons into ISIS territory inside Syria. The U.S. is arming ISIS against Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad, whom Obama wants to remove. Snyder asks rhetorically: \u201cWe have the most sophisticated military on the entire planet and yet we drop weapons into the hands of the enemy by mistake? Come on.\u201d Can it be that the U.S. Air Force doesn\u2019t have maps showing the half of Syria that\u2019s controlled by ISIS? Of course not. ISIS\u2019s chunk of the country constitutes almost the entire northeastern half of Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Snyder further notes: \u201cWhen it comes to airstrikes [against ISIS], the Obama administration has had an \u2018Iraq first\u2019 policy.\u00a0\u00a0This has put ISIS on a defensive posture in Iraq, but this has actually encouraged expansion of ISIS in Syria. ISIS is just following the path of least resistance. Is Obama trying to discourage ISIS from committing troops and resources in Iraq because he actually wants them to focus on taking down the Assad regime in Syria?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Well, it\u2019s certainly working. Snyder also notes that, \u201cISIS has almost doubled the land it controls in Syria since the US-led coalition began airstrikes against the extremist group in the summer, a new map has revealed.\u201d He points out the obvious conclusion: \u201cObama knows all of this. He just wants to take down Assad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Prioritizes Weakening Russia, Over Weakening ISIS Michael Snyder\u00a0noted at Global Research on March 1st, that the U.S. is now air-dropping weapons into ISIS territory inside Syria. The U.S. is arming ISIS against Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad, whom Obama wants to remove. Snyder asks rhetorically: \u201cWe have the most sophisticated military on the entire planet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,1239,446,447,584,694,776,865],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-assad","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-obama","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}