Russia launched air strikes against targets in Syria on Wednesday in the Kremlin’s biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades. It has told the U.S. air force to steer clear. Russia says that it is bombing ISIS but it seems to also be bombing Syrian opponents to Bashir al Assad. It is a galling time for the Americans and for the world. But many will say this bitter outcome is absolutely made in America and in the West. The Russians have done what the democratic governments have not been able to do.
RUSSIA CHOOSES BETWEEN TWO EVILS
It has made a choice between what it sees as the lesser of two evils. It prefers Assad to ISIS. No European power nor any western government has been able to stomach that decision. It is the failure of policy that misread entirely the limited capacity of the middle east and much of North Africa to function in an orderly, much less civilized way, without a distasteful strong man at the top. It began with feckless babble about an Arab Spring and ends with Russia, of all countries, trying to restore order.
