Agreed...
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/2014/01/14/second-hour
Start at 19.40
The Russian foreign policy elite desperately need and want Washington now. The notion of their waiting for another administration doesn’t apply today: there’s an opening is Syria, and one in Iran, and one coming in Afghanistan. Three crises en route. The only way to solve these is with an American-Russian joint effort.
They need the White House now. Putin just made it up and bailed Obama out in Syria. Does he know that? I have no idea who’s got Pres Obama’s ear in these matters. Snowden is a bogus issue; there was a moment when Putin might have handed Snowden over; but Russia didn’t want him. If Washington had returned a few Russians to Moscow, the trade could have occurred. By now, European sentiment is so much in favor of Snowden that Putin dasn’t hand him over to Obama.
Putin knows we have to fight the islamists