Op-ed:
America checkmated thanks to Obama

By: Diane Sori

Today the world has a major new power player and US foreign policy is NO longer dictated by our president…for Vladimir Putin is now doing both.

As Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s failed Middle East policies and in-your-face support of muslim terrorist groups (like the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda) remains the main cause of upheaval and instability in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin snuck in to ‘save the day’ while throwing a wrench into Obama’s saber-ratting.  With a proposal to Bashar al-Assad that was really quite brilliant in its simplicity…place Syria’s chemical weapons cache under international control as in under UN auspices…add in a smattering of other diplomatic measures…and have Obama take all military options off the table…Putin hopes this NOT only helps resolve the Syrian crisis but also establishes him as the major power broker in the Middle East.

And after Putin's plan was announced the Obama ‘rah-rah team’ was called in to implement ‘face-saving’ measures...but what in reality is Putin pulling Obama’s butt out of the fire by giving him a way out…and it started with a statement given early Tuesday morning by Secretary of State John ‘Swiftboat’ Kerry that set the stage for Tuesday night’s bloviations by Obama.

Kerry squawked that this Russian proposal was brought to the table and even accepted by the Syrians only after and because of the threat of force coming from Obama.

Now nobody with even one working brain cell believes that and Kerry knows it.

But truth be told Obama is only ‘standing down’ because he does NOT have the needed votes in Congress to support US military intervention in Syria…and for that reason alone. By Putin now allowing him to delay the Congressional vote on military action, Obama avoids the almost certain political defeat he would have gotten, which in turn would have rendered him a politically impotent lame duck while still having three plus years left in his presidency.

Obama’s inability to effectively deal with the Syrian crisis along with his failure to define the actual mission has made him look weak not only on the international front but also with many in his own Democratic base.

And so while muslim countries throughout the world continue laughing at Obama’s leading from behind (if what he does can even be called leading), al-Assad has agreed…in principle at least…to Putin’s proposal and will account for and turn over his chemical weapons. But understand this…and this is extremely important…al-Assad will turn over his chemical weapons but NOTHING has been said about the chemical weapons in the hands of the rebels…NOTHING at all.

And I would bet this has Obama written all over it.

So right now the winner in all this is Vladimir Putin who has proven to be more of a leader…more of a man…than our miserable excuse of a president…our president who could easily have brokered the exact same deal Putin did…that is if he really wanted an end to the chemical gas attacks…instead of allowing Putin to dominate center stage and have all the world’s eyes focused on him at this all-important junction in time…the world’s eyes now seeing a strong Russian leader and a now quivering, cowering American president with serious credibility issues both on the international and domestic fronts.

So the bottom line is this…if Putin’s deal actually comes to pass Syria basically stays as is, Assad remains in power but minus his chemical weapons, the rebels will have to back down to some degree but will still have their chemical weapons (and believe me they have them), Israel will be in an even more precarious situation regarding Syria than ever before, Iran will continue to advance their plans for acquiring nuclear weapons capabilities, Russia gets to keep its strategically important military installation in Syria (its last foreign military base outside the former Soviet Union), and Russia… especially Vladimir Putin…wins the big prize as they and he now will have garnered the position as the dominate power broker in the Middle East.

And Barack HUSSEIN Obama owns this…he owns it all for his impotency in foreign affairs caused this, for Syria is but another Arab Spring gone horribly wrong.

And what can I say about Obama’s teleprompted address to the nation…his usual whining about al-Assad, and that he used the word ‘children’ over and over to tug at America’s heartstrings.  But did anyone notice this one critical sentence that blew Obama’s whole rhetoric to sheds…Obama said ‘look at the videos and photos of fathers crying over their dead children’. ‘Crying over their dead children’…well if their children were gassed and are dead why are the parents they were with alive and kicking…why didn’t they die with their children…why…I’ll tell you why…the videos and photos of dead children neatly lined up in a row are both posed phonies and photos from when Saddam gassed the Kurds is why…and Barack HUSSEIN Obama knows it.

So while Obama has now asked the Senate to delay its vote on authorizing immediate military action he still did NOT discount future military action if he did did NOT like the timetable or way Syria’s disarmament was going. And now Putin has written an editorial…appearing in the New York Times…to the American people making a better plea against the use of American military action than Obama make for it.

In an editorial titled, 'A Plea for Caution From Russia', Putin writes that a strike against Syria “will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria’s borders.”  He added that if the United Nations Security Council does not approve of such force, it would be classified as “an act of aggression".

Putin also said what many of us have always suspected…that it’s possible the chemical warfare was used by opposition forces to incite international intervention.

And that is something I have always claimed.

Putin continued, “The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders…would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.”

And how right he is as the Israelis, thanks to Obama, have basically lost trust in the America when it comes to Iran, and that Obama has weakened his credibility with NOT only the Syrians, but also with the Iranians, who know that his ‘red lines’ mean absolutely NOTHING.

So even with al-Assad now agreeing to turn over his chemical weapons and agreeing to sign the chemical weapons ban, World War III still looms as a possibility as long as Barack HUSSEIN Obama continues to saber-rattle and side with the enemy.

Op-ed:

Putin vs. Obama...and the battle continues on
By: Diane Sori

Isn’t it a sad commentary on today’s America when an enemy (of sorts) makes way more sense and draws logical conclusions to the serious problem that is Syria when our own president does NOT.

A few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the US Congress had NO right to unilaterally approve the use of force against Syria without a decision first coming down from the UN Security Council, and that doing so would be what he called an “act of aggression”.

Putin claimed, and rightly so, that Obama doing anything militarily without UN Security Council approval is indeed aggression against a sovereign nation...a nation America is NOT at war with...and that what the US Senate and House is doing is in essence ‘legitimizing that aggression’...and that Putin said is inadmissible in principle to international law.

And how right Putin is for ‘legitimizing aggression’ is Barack HUSSEIN Obama's way to take his temper tantrum to the next level all because his side…the al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood backed rebels…is losing to al-Assad’s forces.

And with Obama time and again publicly bloviating his support for the rebels, he cannot now renege on that support and still appear as somewhat of a leader, even knowing that the new information and evidence coming to light from reliable Middle Eastern sources casts serious doubts on his oh so wanted ‘truth’ that it was al-Assad who was the one responsible for the sarin gas attacks on civilians, for it now appears (but NOT being reported by the media) that in actually it was his outwardly supported rebel forces launching said gas attacks.

In fact, in a report from the Russian Arabic-language channel RT Arabic, pictures were shown of captured rebel arsenals with what’s believed to be chemical agents and gas masks manufactured in Saudi Arabia that support the Russian claims that the rebels are the ones gassing the people NOT al-Assad.

And in a video released yesterday by The New York Times that showed rebel forces shooting execution-style seven Syrian government soldiers, this gives credence to just how bad the rebel forces are, and the Russians have made a very good case for who is really the ‘badder’ of the ‘bad guys’ in Syria.

So if the Russians are proven right…which I believe they will be…in fact I have said it was the rebels doing the gassing and the atrocities since day one…Obama’s ego and narcissism will NEVER allow him to admit he was wrong, for he will NEVER turn on his blood brethren NO matter what they are proven to have done.

And now Obama is on Putin’s home turf with other world leaders who are meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia for the G20 Summit, which while being an economic summit will still at some point have the leaders discussing the situation in Syria.

And with Obama having garnered little international support for military action so far (of the G20 members only France is on board with China and Germany strongly voicing their opposition to any involvement in Syria), you just know Obama will try to feign manliness and face off with Putin…which by the way will be hard to do without his teleprompter…over Putin’s recent remarks doubting the evidence Obama is using to justify his sure to come (with or without Congressional approval) military strike against Syria.

Also, you just know Obama is seething under the collar that Putin has publicly called out his Secretary of State John ‘Swiftboat’ Kerry for what he is…a LIAR of the first degree…a LIAR who deliberately mislead Congress about the role and ties al-Qaeda has to the Syrian rebels…and did so simply to corral support for Obama’s war.

“Al-Qaeda units are the main military echelon, and they (the US) know this…he (Kerry) is lying and knows he is lying. It’s sad,” Putin said. And Putin knows this to be fact for he watched the Congressional debates and heard when a member of Congress asked Kerry: ‘Is al-Qaeda there?’ and Kerry, with a straight face but avoiding eye contact said, “I am telling you responsibly that it is not.

And when pressed further and asked whether it was “basically true” that the Syrian opposition had “become more infiltrated by al Qaeda over time, Kerry LIED and said: “No, that is actually basically not true. It’s basically incorrect”.

The very man who LIED about the extent of his military service in Viet Nam is now LYING to Congress so that Obama can take America to war…and shooting even one Tomahawk missile into Syria is indeed an act of war in case Kerry did NOT know it..

And as a counter to Kerry’s LIES and Obama’s bloviations, Putin pledged to give al-Assad a ‘missile shield’ if Obama attacks them…a missile shield Russia cancelled a few years ago under strong US and Israeli pressure. In fact, Putin has already given some components of the S-300 air defense missile system to al-Assad, but with a warning that, “If we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world.”

Smart man saying all the right things at the right time, but I’m smart enough to know that we cannot trust Putin completely, but even trusting him half way is better than trusting Barack HUSSEIN Obama at all.