Obama’s sudden decision to send Special Forces should fool no one

The sudden decision by Obama to send special forces to Syria ‘to combat ISIS’ is fooling no one. For well over a year ISIS seem to have been able to act with impunity while the US seemed ‘unable’ to stop their progress or intervene.

ISIS were being ‘sold’ to us as monsters worse even than al Qaeda, so why was no one willing to do anything effective? Well, actually, someone was able to do something, and that someone turned out to be Russian President Putin.

In a few weeks his forces have done more to undermine ISIS than the US and its allies have done in over a year. Now, with the Russians looking ever more likely to succeed, and demanding that Assad remain in power, suddenly Obama wants to send troops to Syria.