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The humiliation of Obama as Putin swaggers!
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The humiliation of Obama as Putin swaggers on his Moscow dunghill
PUBLISHED: 17:02 EST, 10 September 2013
The President of the United States is facing a grave crisis of trust at home and abroad.
Whatever the fate of the draft resolution on chemical weapons that France has put before the UN Security Council, the Syrian crisis has damaged respect for Barack Obama, probably irretrievably.
Less than a fortnight ago, David Cameron suffered humiliation when he lost his Commons vote after demanding support for military action.
Yet the spectacle of the leader of the U.S. being rudderless and outplayed at every turn by Vladimir Putin is a vastly more serious matter.
Russia’s brutish president has launched a diplomatic initiative which leaves the U.S. wrong-footed and potentially isolated.
Fareed Zakaria, one of the country’s most influential commentators, calls the Washington administration’s handling of Syria ‘a case study in how not to do foreign policy’.
Weakness
This presidency has touched a low point. Over the past five years, Obama’s lassitude and political ineptitude have increasingly become apparent.
His rhetoric remains as impressive as ever, but his conduct of office is hallmarked by weakness and indecision.
This matters to us all much more than Cameron’s bungling, because the U.S. is the most important nation on earth.
For all its shortcomings, it represents most of the values democracies cherish, just as Putin’s Russia embodies many of the evils from which they recoil.
So what has gone wrong?
....read the reat at
[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]
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