President Vladimir Putin of Russia should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

That IS funny.

 

thats because he's riding a tricycle.

 

Show of Farce
Obama's handling of Syria couldn't have been worse
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com...your-country-can-do-for-you-or-anyone-really/

 

Nevertheless he brought the issue to center stage. No one else was doing squat about it, particularly the russkies.

 

No one should be doing squat. It's a localized civil war.

 

Then he has nothing to be "terrified" of now does he.

 

The center state of ineptness and fumbling. It's like watching a clown pedaling around in the center ring of Barnum & Bailey's drop all the balls and fall off the unicycle while the audience loudly laughs. Everyone recognizes the clown is a clumsy failure and will not get back on the bike.

The other clowns know they have nothing to fear from this bungling hack - and can carry on doing what they please.

 

Yes, too bad he doesn't care the same about other places where atrocities are performed on a regular basis - like many places in Africa. I wonder why that is?

 

This doesn't even reach the level of Monday morning quarterbacking.

 

The Right’s Sickening Syria Spin
by Michael Tomasky Sep 16, 2013 5:45 AM EDT

If Obama persuaded Assad to step down and move to Siberia, the critics would still find something to whine about. Michael Tomasky deflates the arguments against the new arms deal.

"I don’t know about you, but I’m not very interested in being lectured that Bashar al-Assad has no real intention of giving up his chemical weapons by the very same people who a decade ago were pushing this country into war—and having the deranged gall to call the rest of us unpatriotic—on the argument that there was no possible way a monster like Saddam Hussein had given up his chemical weapons. Barack Obama has been forced to spend about 70 percent of his presidential energies trying to repair crises foreign and domestic that these people created, and forced to do so against their iron opposition on all fronts; and now that he’s achieved a diplomatic breakthrough, they have the audacity to argue that he sold America out to Vladimir Putin? It’s staggering and sickening.

"But here was Newt Gingrich on television yesterday: “You have Putin playing chess and Obama playing, frankly, a very lucky game of tic-tac-toe. Putin stepped in to maximize Russian influence in the Middle East. That is a strategic defeat for the United States.” What Gingrich is still even doing on television is the first mystery, perhaps solvable by consulting Nostradamus or some ancient Mayan codex; but there he was puffing and huffing, playing with the phrase made famous back during the Libyan adventure by saying Obama was now “following from behind.”

"On another network, there was John McCain (are these shows just going to end when he retires?) asserting that the deal was empty because the Russians “will not agree to the use of force no matter what” Assad does, which my colleague Christopher Dickey wrote yesterday is not in this fact the case.

"Of course, it might end up being true—indeed it will almost certainly end up being true—that the deal cannot be fully and perfectly enforced. To point that out is to belabor the obvious. But the real questions are two. The first doesn’t concern Assad at all but is rather: can the deal be enforced well enough that these weapons are kept out of the hands of the al Qaeda–affiliated fighters in the region and other extremist groups? We don’t know the answer today, obviously. But surely the presence of international monitors, and the stern timeline of the deal, make it less possible."

"The second question concerns Assad. Conservatives are now asserting that this deal means Assad has gotten away with it; that he used chemical weapons and will now pay no price. What does that even mean? If he even partly or mostly honors the terms of the deal, he’s paid a price. I suppose the critics really mean that Assad paid no military price, and strictly speaking that’s true. But do these critics really think Assad is sitting in Damascus laughing? He was afraid the world’s largest and best military was going to bomb him. And I’d bet he knows all too clearly that if he uses them again, he will be bombed. If Assad is mad enough to use them again, Obama won’t mess with Congress or even Russia. He’ll be credited by most observers—except America’s enemies and the Republican Party; food for thought there—for having shown restraint the first time, and more people will agree at that point that Assad must be punished."

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