Putin A+. Obama F-
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric MargolisPresident Barack Obama foolishly backed himself into a corner during the growing Syrian crisis by issuing fatwas about mythological red lines. When his bluff got called, the silver-tongued president was left twisting in the wind.
Here's the heart of the article....the rest is nuts and bolts stuff:
So in what could have been a second Cuban missile crisis, Putin and Lavrov get A+. Obama and his angry advisors get an F- and orders to get intense tutoring in diplomacy.
President Putin has just forced the US to begin treating Russia with the dignity and importance that it deserves as a nuclear great power instead of dismissing it as a third-rate blini-republic.
Let's look at Putin and Obama. Let's forget that both governments could shut down these two leaders in a minute if they wanted to.
Obama isn't the bad guy. Congress is. And so are a bunch of everyday folks who like what Obama and Congress are doing.
Obama is nothing. He could be shut down in a minute by a united Congress. Congress is the problem.