Ever since out feckless commander-in-chief placed the U.S. on administrative leave from its role as the world’s policeman, by all objective accounts, the Middle East situation has gone from troubled to disastrous. ISIS is rampaging through Iraq and Syria. Iran is ever closer to ushering in the Twelfth Imam with a nuclear bomb. And in Afghanistan, the Taliban is steadily reclaiming lost territory. Just a few days ago they managed to overrun another town ~

A day after the Taliban had overrun the city of Kunduz, Obama told the UN that, “Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas.”
 
The better idea that the Taliban had was fighting a war with guns, while Obama was still searching through his hashtags for a better idea than a bullet. Instead of convening a summit on “countering violent extremism”, the Taliban retook the last of their cities to fall to the United States.
 
 
In a single day in September, the Taliban had captured a city of a few hundred thousand people […]
 
Kunduz fell to the Northern Alliance two months after September 11. What the Bush administration managed to get done in a few months at the cost of eight lives, Obama spent six years in office undoing at the cost of thousands of American lives.

Source: Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Mag

 
Also, this past week – lost in the Umpqua Community College shooting and the president’s subsequent anti-gun tirade – an Afghanistan US military plane crashed: At least 11 killed at Jalalabad airport ~

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the crash, but this has not been confirmed by US officials.

 
Too bad POTUS couldn’t summon any passionate indignation over this tragedy. He’d rather rage against the Second Amendment.
 

Unthinkable as it would have been a few years ago, what with Obama’s military purges (of honorable officers), his arming terrorists in Syria, and considering that his Pentagon is persecuting American troops for punishing child rapists, it seems America is increasingly on the wrong side of every international conflict.
 
Not for the first time, a significant number of Americans are wondering who’s side this guy is really on? And when some of us are actually cheering for the Russians – well, Houston we have a problem ~

Russian Air Force hit 10 ISIS targets in Syria in last 24 hours – Defense Ministry (VIDEOS)
 
Russian fighter jets have attacked 10 Islamic State targets in Syria in their latest airstrikes, destroying arms depots, training centers and infrastructure, Defense Ministry says. In the last 24 hours, Russian military aircraft have performed 20 sorties.
Armored Sukhoi Su-25 ground-support fighter jets have attacked a jihadist training center in Idlib province, also destroying a workshop producing suicide belts, according to the newly-released Defense Ministry report.
 
Three depots with munitions, arms and material assets have been eliminated with pinpoint strikes. As a result of direct hits from KAB-500 air bombs, installations and munitions have been taken out.
 
Sukhoi Su-24M and Su-34 bombers inflicted airstrikes on eight terrorist installations near Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib province, the ministry said.

 
As Piers Morgan exclaimed last Friday: “Thank God there’s a strong President willing to stand up for American interests in the Middle East – shame it’s not Obama.”
 

In the president’s foggy sphere of moral relativity, his decisions as commander-in-chief over the last 7 years must make some sick sort of sense. To the rest of us they’re simply irresponsible, irrational and downright dangerous.
 
Thanks to Barack Hussein Obama, America is no longer the “good guys.” Vladimir Putin is suddenly the one wearing the white hat – at least temporarily.
 
Heck, if Gen. George S. Patton were around today, even he might be cheering on the “Russkies”!

 
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Related:
Between the media spinning and the Taliban practicing Taqiyya, it’s difficult to sort out the truth of the Kunduz hospital bombing that occurred yesterday. As always though, I rely on Daniel Greenfield (writing at FrontPage News) for his wise and witty assessments ~ It’s Time to Treat Doctors Without Borders as a Terrorist Organization ~

Doctors Without Borders has a long history of collaborating with and defending terrorists. And even being terrorists. The issue came up just last month in relation to Hamas.
 
Its current attacks on America and collaboration with the Taliban are completely unacceptable. Doctors Without Borders’ personnel are once again lying through their teeth, denying the facts put forward by US and Afghan personnel and covering up the use of medical facilities by the Taliban Jihadists as human shields.