morrisdl - November 2, 2012

Russia has an extremely potent military and is a sovereign nation. They are the only ones who can request support from the United States. This is an internal problem and therefore their decision. We need to check our ego at the door and offer aid when requested. Note, that aid costs and we cannot continue to function as the world’s police force.

Donald DaCosta - November 2, 2012

Let Russia handle this problem on its own.

The same problem exists around the world. Most, including America, either refuse to acknowledge it exists or are willfully blind and determined to ignore the erupting mountain of evidence to the contrary. America is in the latter group. There is no such thing as Islamist terror. There are “man caused disasters” and “workplace violence,” no matter the volume of evidence that points to the confrontation that is looming. Commentary, speech, art, cartoons critical of Islam are “outrageous hate speech” and must be declared illegal. We are to believe that Christian and Jewish groups are equally guilty of terrorist acts and no one dares question the fact that there have been roughly 20,000 such violent acts committed by Islamists in the name of Islam since 9/11. Please demonstrate the equivalence. How many, where, when and by who?

All of Europe is infested with this ideology, not just Russia. America is already stretched too thin, has yet, after ten years of immersion in the Middle East, to recognize what should by now be blatantly obvious, and needs to concentrate on forcefully confronting what is becoming the same problem here before entertaining pleas for help, especially from the likes of Russia who’d just as soon see America crushed by the Islamists.

I have no pity for them. They insert themselves in every way possible to foment hatred especially for America, including funding and supplying arms and munitions to Islamic terrorist organizations to be used against us.

Russia is not a small, helpless, ill equipped country. They are perfectly capable of spending billions of their capital and the blood of their own youth to protect themselves.

W. Colborne Mullen - November 3, 2012

Can we stop asking leading questions? We must discontinue this practice. It is a useless waste, of time. The Kremlin is not interested, in our opinion. They have continued, to ignore advice, from others, and they persue business dealings, with our enemys. The people chose their leadership, and we must let their chips fall, as they may. We must prepare, for whatever the consequences, of their actions.

J E Houser - November 3, 2012

No. Russia has great resources to subdue civil conflict. The US cannot afford to answer all the problems of that region. If required to, our response should be very very severe.