Rubio's Take On Middle East

While sipping my morning tea and watching FoxNFriends, Marco Rubio, GOP presidential candidate appeared. There was a bit of lighthearted stuff first ie brief interview with his wife and how he proposed to her on Valentine's Day; video of him coaching one of his sons in football and the usual lighthearted banter.

Then they got to the serious stuff.

What I like most about Rubio is his ability to make the complicated, simple. I have been trying to follow the Syria/Russia/USA/Rebels/ISIS crisis for quite a while. However, with all the armchair generals, pundits and detailed info blasting out on a regular basis, my eyes would start to glaze over. Who were the good guys? Who were the bad guys? What are Putin's and Syrian president, Assad's true motives? Where do we stand? What the heck is really going on???

Within 5 minutes Marco Rubio summed it all up in a very succinct and articulate nutshell.

First. Putin's motivations are two fold ie to distract the public from what's happening in the Ukraine. Second, to get rid of U.S. backed rebels and keep Assad in power and thus increase Vlad's standing in the world as well as his own power. No one else has said it so well.

What about the U.S.? To try and stay the heck out of the mess but look like we're helping somewhat.

Could Rubio be over simplifying the situation? Maybe. But I don't think so.  He's extremely well read, is in the belly of the beast due to his membership on the Foreign Relations Committee and he can quote stats, strategy, names, places, etc. like no one else I've heard so far when speaking about the Middle East.

Whatever the case, I'm glad I caught him this morning. What a gift and ability he has to speak plainly to the American people in understandable ways without being condescending, patronizing or coming off as a know it all.  Just my response and two cents on the performance of one of my top, favorite presidential candidates.