RUSSIANS IN AIR ACTION IN SYRIA – AT 9:57 A.M. ET:  But, really, it's okay.  We have a reset with Russia.  We must understand them, and what bad Bush and Cheney did to them.  That's right, isn't it?  Barack says so.  From Reuters: 

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Russia said it launched air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament's unanimous backing to intervene to prop up the Kremlin's closest Middle East ally.

Moscow gave Washington just an hour's notice of the strikes, which set in train Russia's biggest play in the region since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, a US official said.

The US official told Reuters that Russia's airstrikes in Syria so far do not appear to be targeting Islamic State-held territory, a crucial detail which could complicate any potential cooperation with the United States in the war.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Russia was carrying out the strikes in the vicinity of Homs and perhaps other areas in Syria as well, noting that all US information on Russian activity was still preliminary.

Russia cautioned the United States to clear Syrian airspace ahead of the strikes, the US official said, adding, however, that the US-led coalition was "continuing to fly missions in Syria."

The Russian Defense Ministry said however that its attacks were directed at Islamic State military targets.

Putin said the only way to fight "terrorists" in Syria was to act preemptively. Russia's military involvement in the Middle East would only involve its air force and would be temporary.

The Homs area is crucial to President Bashar Assad's control of western Syria. Insurgent control of that area would bisect the Assad-held west, separating Damascus from the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, where Russia operates a naval facility.

COMMENT:  Russia moves right into the Mideast, as it did in Ukraine, and gets no serious opposition from the United States, except some staged glaring from Obama when he met with Putin.

The United States, under Obama, is losing...all over the world.  Why do I think the forces behind Obama are privately cheering.  Because they are.

September 30, 2015