Krauthammer on Democrat ineffectiveness in standing up to Russia and Islam

Krauthammer’s Take: Russia’s Targeting Our Allies in Syria ‘and We Do Nothing’

"Tonight Charles Krauthammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin is directly targeting American allies in Syria and the Obama Administration is giving him a green light.

“It’s one thing to be humiliated,” Krauthammer said on Wednesday’s Special Report on Fox News. “It’s another thing to have that demonstrated to the world when our allies are looking at us and wondering who’s in charge here.”

“ 'The United States is told by Russia one hour earlier that they’re going to go and attack ISIS; the Soviet ministry announces that they hit ISIS targets — everyone knows it is a lie,” Krauthammer continued. “Like all the lies issued in the Ukraine, they were not hitting ISIS, ISIS isn’t in the area; they were hitting the city of Homs, which is a stronghold for Free Syrian Army, our allies who we are supposedly supporting and training and the allies of our Arab allies, the ones in the Gulf and elsewhere.”

" 'And we do nothing, but not only do we do nothing, but then you’ve got the scene you showed, Brett, about 20 minutes ago of before the show, actually, live of our secretary of State coming out in a jolly; with Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, as a buddy, and saying ‘Well, we’ve got a little problem about the nature of the targets that Russia attacked today, but we’ll go on to other stuff and worry about that later,’” Krauthammer said. “As if it’s a side issue.”

“ 'The point of Obama inviting in the Russians first time in half a century, a complete revolution in our position on the Russians staying out of the Middle East, was on the premise they’re going to join a coalition against ISIS,” he said. “As I was saying last night, the Russians have no interest in fighting ISIS. They’re only interest is supporting Assad. Keeping him in place and the reason they are hitting Homs, is because it’s the center of resistance from the legitimate pro-western opposition.”

“ 'They are hitting our allies and we do nothing, except have a palsy-walsy statement with the Russian foreign minister, as it nothing has happened,” Krauthammer said."

Lavrov has pretty well found that he owns US Secretaries of State. Can the Russians have a shred of respect for the United States?

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