Incredible mental gymnastics by former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford. Take a bow, sir.
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We're not going to spend too much time harping on the lunacy that came out of Ambassador Robert Ford's mouth-hole during a recent interview with The Daily Beast. But here's his "argument", if you can even call it that:
Former Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is skeptical that the Russians are really changing their stance about Assad, and as long as Assad is in place, the armed opposition will not mobilize to fight against the Islamic State.
Ha-ha, see? Russia refuses to violently depose Assad, which means that US-backed "moderate" rebels are so busy fighting Assad — and "surrendering" their weapons to ISIS — that they have no time to fight ISIS! Ergo, Russia "doesn't care about Paris", and has even enabled the Islamic State! Here's Ford, again, unfortunately:
“Do you really think the Russians care anything about Paris?” Ford asks. “The way of proving it would be getting rid of Assad. But maybe Putin is like Donald Rumsfeld. You don’t fight the Islamic state with the Syrian leader you want; you fight it with the Syrian leader you have.”
Just...wow.
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