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All credible reports point to the fact that Putin’s Russia is not only supporting Assad, but is indirectly supporting ISIS at the expense of the Syrian revolutionaries. Where is American leadership? Russia is obviously trying to bait America into a standoff in Syria, but Obama won’t budge. Part of me respects him for that, but I don’t think that his isolationism is a long term solution to Putin, or the Ayatollahs in Iran, or Assad, and his calculated hesitancy and withdrawal will eventually bite America in the ass more than it already has. America used to be able to afford isolationism before globalization, when it was a new country in the New World, when it didn’t need trade and was far away from everybody else.