Contemplating a US-Russia anti-Islamist Alliance

Before Donald Trump’s blowout win in New Hampshire, he shocked the world by saying he would allow the Russians to do the "dirty work" and would “Let them beat the s**t out of ISIS also.”  Trump went further, “I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect,” Putin, responded by saying: "He (Trump) says that he wants to move to another level of relations, to a deeper level of relations with Russia. How can we not welcome that? Of course we welcome it." The condemnation of Trump for his remarks was immediate but certainly not universal. Many American’s are beginning to see Russia in a new light. Until the fall of the USSR, the 20th Century was dominated by an ideological struggle between American capitalism and Russian communism. But now...(Read Full Article)