WorldAmericans Say Putin Most Effective Leader on Syria, Obama Least – Poll

[Spoonman]

Americans Say Putin Most Effective Leader on Syria, Obama Least ? Poll | World | RIA Novosti

WorldAmericans Say Putin Most Effective Leader on Syria, Obama Least – Poll

WASHINGTON, September 26 (RIA Novosti) – Americans think Russian President Vladimir Putin was far and away the most effective world leader in dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, with US President Barack Obama trailing him in a distant second place, a new poll shows.

Nearly half of 1,000 American adults polled – 49 percent – said Putin was the most effective at dealing with the still ongoing crisis in Syria, with 25 percent saying Obama was the most effective, the poll released Wednesday by the Economist magazine and the YouGov polling agency said

 

[Katzndogz]

Liberals can deny the facts, they can spin the facts. Then there they are, still facts.

Putin was right about the rebels.

News from The Associated Press

The rebel groups, including at least three considered to be under the FSA umbrella, called on Tuesday for the rebel forces to be reorganized under an Islamic framework and to be run only by groups fighting inside Syria.

Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition and called for a new Islamist front, undermining international efforts to build up a pro-Western military force to replace Assad.

obama is weak.

A Small President on the World Stage - WSJ.com

The second takeaway of the week has to do with a continued decline in admiration for the American president. Barack Obama's reputation among his fellow international players has deflated, his stature almost collapsed. In diplomatic circles, attitudes toward his leadership have been declining for some time, but this week you could hear the disappointment, and something more dangerous: the sense that he is no longer, perhaps, all that relevant. Part of this is due, obviously, to his handling of the Syria crisis. If you draw a line and it is crossed and then you dodge, deflect, disappear and call it diplomacy, the world will notice, and not think better of you. Some of it is connected to the historical moment America is in.

 

[Montecresto]

Russia and China have been right on Syria from the beginning. Because the US abused the UN resolution to use force to protect civilians in Libya, to overthrow the Libyan government, they both became determined to block the same thing from happening in Syria. And so far, they have.