White House spokesman Josh Earnest compared Vladimir Putin's bombing in Syria to George W. Bush's "military solution in Iraq in the last decade." Earnest made the comparison at the daily White House press briefing.
"Russia is not going to be successful in imposing a military solution inside of Syria, and they’ll be no more successful in that regard than the United States was in imposing a military solution in Iraq in the last decade, and certainly no more successful than Russian efforts to impose a military solution on Afghanistan three decades ago," Earnest said.
A Jeb Bush adviser responded by blasting the White House. "Dictators and tyrants around the world don't just have a friend in the White House, they have a defense attorney," he wrote on Twitter.