Are you for real? ThevUkraineian people want europe what do you do you think the euro maid an was for? This was a mass rising of the people and nothing to do with the CIA.

Not our problem per se. Getting involved in civil wars is generally a bad idea. On the other hand, we have a security interest in killing as many ISIS as possible. Complex situation.

NO to either one.

The Crimean issue was settled before our Civil War, in something called the Crimean War, over the same issue - Russian access to a warm water port. We now know that that's an issue the Russians are willing to fight over (you would have thought that they'd figured it out in the 1850s, but some have short memories, and they haven't figured out what history is for).

Who's the bad guy? Do you know? What do you know about Syria? I learned early on, stay out of other people's business.

LOL! Thank's BradA. I needed that!

Involving ourselves in Syria is like trying to pick up a turd by the clean end.

If Syria, itself, were asking for protection from Russia...perhaps.

This (Obama's) battle is against an existing regime and we've all seen how those have been turning out, lately.

The USA, Russia and China can compete and argue all they want but they need to be wary of those, too weak to defeat any of them directly, but sly enough to trick them into knocking off each other. They need to remember that there 1.6 or so billion people that are not aggregated into one political entity but are united through their ideology to convert or destroy all others.

What exactly is the problem with one Syrian Muslim terrorist faction killing another Syrian Muslim terrorist faction?

It's time we pressured our Arab "friends" to step up and take in fellow Muslim refugees and asylum seekers. Jordan is the only country that has tried to support displaced Muslims. There would be less difficulty with cultural conflict, although the more secular Syrians might struggle with the severe Wahabist culture of the Saudis. Let them start to take responsibility for their own brethren.

The Russians seem to be stumbling into an Afgahistan-like tar baby with the Syrian conflict, and may welcome a more hard-nosed American negotiating presence. The real solution may be getting the regional nations to agree to divide things up along tribal/cultural lines, recognizing Kurdish, Shiite, Sunni, Alawi, etc. sovereign territories. Joe Biden was right about this being a logical solution.

Our new Secretary of State will be much more intimately knowledgeable in how to deal with Russia and Putin. Trump has been smart about picking figures with an amiable history with Russia and China, which should give us better results than the feckless Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policy.

I hate to say it, but as General Sherman said, "War is hell." It is insanity to think it's possible to conduct humane warfare, particularly when it's necessary to break the will of your opponent. The Russians are attempting to win and put an end to the conflict. If we can find a way to help them end the conflict before too much more human damage is done, we should, but confrontation on behalf of "rebels" who are extremist Muslims could draw us into a potential military conflict that will not end well.

We bear responsibility for the Russian-Ukraine conflict. When the elected Russian descended Ukraine President chose not to enter the EU, and chose instead to favor stronger ties with Russia, our CIA engineered a coup to overthrow him and place a "pure" Ukrainian in his place that would oppose ties to Russia. This dunderhead move, compounded by a promise to bring Ukraine into NATO and the EU gave the Russians no choice but to try to ensure their investment in the Crimean Black Sea port wasn't lost. If we can help secure peace between Russia and Ukraine we should, but we need to make it clear to both sides we are staying out of their business.

NO

Syria is a messed up country and has been for a long time. They arent a democracy. If we can trade profitably with them, fine. Otherwise, let Russia and Syria do what they want with each other.

Personally, I dont want syrian refugees living next door to me. They are way to different in their thoughts about human and property rights for me to feel comfortable with them in the USA.

In this day and age, I think people who want to live here should do so because they believe in our values. Otherwise, go live somewhere else. Refugees are desperate people who will do and say anything, and we dont need that here at this point in our history. REfugees today feel entitled and want to be taken care of here- at my expense. No thanks. I say they should fix their own country

Trump could actually broker a deal with all the players to carve out a safe zone for the rebels, the Kurds, the Copts, ad nauseum. Tough negotiation, but who better than he?

no we should help them. that way all of the bad guys on both sides could be done away with.

All nations have been spying on each other, friend or foe, for decades. In the '60 s the French had the reputation for being the biggest group spying on America. America is no slouch in the spy business either, but we are the biggest hypocrites about it. Maybe if we started at the beginning and limited internet service of gov't workers to an absolute need only. That would at least cut down on the porn watching during work hours as verified by the gov't own records.

Right!

Ukraine? Yes. Syria, No.

Expressions of Obama's "Islam: the religion of peace" refugee gratitude just keeps on giving.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/...
Stay tuned for more Allahu Akbar expressions of love and thanksgiving.
Me dino calls that being "Merkeled" when Muslims commit rapes and murders in Germany.
Fortunately today's snowflake threatened delegate flip fail spares us all from dino also having to write about murdered citizens here being "Clintonized" by the doubled down horde the evil hag proposed flooding in.

I wonder what Berlin thinks of that today.

Some things are simply not our business save for keeping unvetted refugees out of our country. .

Would are our interests in the region? I ask because I seriously can't think of any.

That's an important point. The reason I pose the question is to ensure that we Americans do not allow ourselves to be perturbed from pursuing our interest in the region due to the presence of a bear.

In my eyes, no. Syria has long been a Russian/Soviet ally. They have never been our ally. We will gain no ground or advantage getting involved with what is essentially a domestic dispute. This is not our issue.