Only two replies? What's with you guys?
Here's even more on the guy Rush is now calling the Leader of the Free World. And it combines this thread with another one citing the right's love affair with a certain communist propaganda whore.
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/23416669/analysis-putin-scores-diplomatic-win-on-syriaRussians and Americans have been duking it out in the Twitter world over who's scoring more points in high-stakes diplomatic wrangling over Syria - U.S. President Barack Obama or Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations tweeted Thursday: "Three days ago there seemed no diplomatic way to hold Assad accountable. Threat of U.S. action finally brought Russia to the table."
In her Tweet, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia's English-language television network RT, quipped: "If the Russian proposal on Syria works, Obama, as an honest man, has to give his Nobel Prize to Putin."
Taking Syria's chemical weapons out of government control and preventing another horrendous attack on civilians is too serious an issue to reduce to political one-upmanship.
But after Putin's bombshell opinion piece in the New York Times in which, among other things, he takes America to task for an "alarming" pattern of intervening in the internal conflicts of foreign countries, it's obvious something has shifted.
"It absolutely is a diplomatic win by Putin right now," Fiona Hill, expert on Putin and director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, told CNN.
"If we think about this as judo, which is of course, Mr. Putin's favorite sport this is just one set of moves," she said. "And right now he's managed to get Obama off the mat, at least, and get the terms set down that play to his advantage."
