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.