Donald Trump Agrees With Putin On Syrian Leader, Gives Russian An 'A' On Leadership

[Purveyor]

Associated Press | 49 minutes ago in Politics, Entertainment

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is agreeing with Russian President Vladimir Putin in his backing of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Trump says in an interview on Fox News that he has no problem with Russia's recent military buildup in Syria. And he says he thinks Assad may be preferable to the kind of people the U.S. is "supposed to be backing."

The U.S. insists Syria's future cannot include Assad. But Putin has cast his longtime ally as the best defense against Islamic State militants.

Trump also says Putin is getting an "A'' in terms of leadership, while Obama isn't doing so well.

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[ozone_man]

1. A broken clock is right twice a day.

At least he has the balls to say what is obvious.

[philosslayer]

3. Bullshit

This is a direct slam at President Obama.

[leftynyc]

12. They're pointing out the obvious

If what you're looking for is stability and the choices are al assad or isis, the tyrant is going to bring more stability. Unless you favor our President committing tens of thousands of troops to another war we have no business being involved in.

[stevenleser]

5. Perhaps. Still, not a wonderful thing to have to tell the folks in Syria who would rather have

a Democracy.

"Sorry but we need to prop up your dictator as a bulwark against ISIS/ISIL."

This kind of decision-making, when the enemy was communism, is exactly how we got a lot of the world to hate us. We may have no other choice here and in the past perhaps in some situations we may not have had a choice, but making the decision as easy as Trump makes it out to be is superficial at best.

And before you reply that communism wasnt the danger purported to be. Maybe, but the fact is we still propped up dictators to fight it just as is proposed we do here.

[ozone_man]

17. It was a stable region before we destabilized it.

Iraq and Syria were two secular countries, with dictators strong enough to keep them together.
Would the people of those two countries be happier with ISIS running them?
This refugee situation is our own doing.

[stevenleser]

19. Correct. Doesn't change much in terms of what to do now. I say let Russia have it.

The Russians seem to want to take ownership of everything, and if they are determined to do so, we should let them.

Putin, you want to own the Syrian civil war? You want to own responsibility for the destruction of ISIS?

Take it, it's yours. Kthanxbye

[Fred Sanders]

2. The Media Cash Cow has a lot to learn about pandering to the GOP base..there goes another 2%

in the popularity contest polls.

[Reter]

4. Trump is finally right

I fully support Assad, and Obama should too.

[840high]

8. ...+1

[spanone]

10. you fully support assad? and Obama should too?

where am i?

[ellisonz]

13. the asylum

[pampango]

14. You fully support Assad? Or you support him temporarily because he is the "lesser of two evils"?

The latter I can understand. Liberals who profess "full support" for a dictator is another matter.

[geek tragedy]

21. Slight correction

People who express "full support" for a dictator while professing to be liberals is another matter.

[geek tragedy]

18. Your admiration and support for a psychopathic butcher are duly noted

Obama, having something resembling a human conscience, is not likely to follow you in unreserved, unqualified support for one of the planet's most malevolent dictators

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. You "fully support" Assad?

What?

[kelliekat44]

6. He would give Putin an "A" no matter what position Putin takes...just to stab at Obama. nt

[yeoman6987]

11. He's running for the GOP nomination

Of course he will take a jab at Obama. I believe senator Obama at the time took a jab or two at president bush. It is politics after all.

[NuclearDem]

7. Fuck Putin, fuck Assad, and fuck Trump.

[spanone]

9. fuck trump. his opinions are shit.

[pampango]

15. Putin supporters in social media seem to support Trump over other GOP candidates and, obviously,

over Obama.

Donald Trump was asked if he would be willing to sit down and negotiate with Putin. Trump began by saying that Putin has, “absolutely no respect for President Obama. Zero.” “I would talk to (Putin). I would get along with him,” Trump went on to say.

If Putin himself was listening in to the GOP debate, it is difficult to know exactly what he made of the candidates’ statements about Russian behavior. But McFaul says there does seem to be agreement among Putin’s advisers and pro-Kremlin people in the Russian media.

“They are hopeful that the next [US] president will be more favorable towards Russia than President Obama,” McFaul says. “They think President Obama has been confrontational, he’s returned things to the Cold War, and they think that anybody will be better than Obama.”

But they are partial to one GOP candidate above all the others, McFaul says.

Константин Рыков
‏@rykov
@McFaul I hope president Trump will be not so cruel and dangerous for the world as Barak Huseinovich..

“They somehow believe, because he’s a business man, because he’s different, and he has said that he wants to sit down and to talk with Putin, they think that he (Trump) would be the person most likely to benefit Russia’s national interests, should he become president,” McFaul says.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-17/gop-candidates-dont-vladimir-putin-they-disagree-how-deal-him

Both Trump and Putin are macho, nationalist, "make my country great again" types of politicians. Their supporters probably sense that they would get along better than Putin and Obama have.

[Major Hogwash]

16. He finally stepped over the line this time.

This is undoubtedly the stupidest thing Trump could have ever said.
It shows his complete ignorance of foreign policy matters.

[geek tragedy]

20. the Assad fan club at DU agrees with him nt