John Kerry thinks it would be a swell idea to get Russia more involved in the Middle East

Jim Geraghty writes at National Review about a period of time when

...back when red lines really meant something. It’s fascinating to think that back in 1983, the United States ran nuclear first-strike simulations that began with Moscow increasing its military role in the Middle East, arming Syria, and so on.

...Now the administration is trying to get Moscow to take a bigger role in the Middle East. Really. Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report:

...The State Department is now quietly encouraging U.S. allies to engage with Moscow, as part of Secretary John Kerry’s quest to win Russian support for a political process in Syria.

Why, it’s almost as if Obama and Kerry either don’t know or don’t care that the Russian KGB was the incubator of all sorts of terrorist groups, from the Red Brigades to the Red Army Faction to the Palestine Liberation Organization, not to mention its giving assistance to Libya’s terrorist allies. When the KGB was operating at peak power around the world, anti-Western terrorism thrived.

And now Obama and Kerry are encouraging the Middle East to turn to a man who has been in the KGB for 40 years and was considered particularly ruthless by his peers. (You’re a fool if you think a KGB man ever really leaves.)

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