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Obama on Putin in Syria: “My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change”
Hotair ^ | 10/12/2015 | AllahPundit

Posted on 10/12/2015 4:34:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

This is like being down 28-0 at halftime of the Super Bowl and having your QB tell a reporter that baseball’s actually his best sport.

My definition of leadership is maximizing your side’s advantage by making smart executive decisions in a high-risk atmosphere. Who’s done a better job of that lately in Syria? Obama notes that Putin’s only involved now because his previous strategy, of supplying Assad and his Iranian patrons and hoping they’d succeed on the battlefield, didn’t work. But our strategy, to the extent that we’ve ever had anything one might reasonably call a “strategy” in Syria, hasn’t worked either. We’ve supplied some of the Sunni rebels with weapons but they haven’t managed to overcome the Assad/Hezbollah/Iran/Russia axis.

We tried to train our own rebel army before the project ended in total humiliation, with the White House whining that they never wanted to do it in the first place. When Putin’s strategy didn’t work, he adapted by agreeing to put Russian military assets in the field to turn the tide of war towards Assad — and that strategy is working. When Obama’s strategy didn’t work, he … made a concession to the other side, mollifying Iran and Russia by agreeing that there’s no rush for Assad to leave so long as he agrees to leave at some point as part of an eventual political settlement. Putin changed the facts on the ground to maximize his leverage at the bargaining table. Obama reacted to those changed facts by trying to accommodate him. Which sounds more like leadership?

Meanwhile, I’m amazed he had the stones to cite the Iran nuclear deal as proof of his own leadership with this story breaking in the Times this weekend:

Iran tested a new guided long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, hours before Parliament, in a rowdy session, approved the generalities of the nuclear agreement reached in July between Iran and world powers, the state news agency IRNA reported.

The missile launch may have violated the terms of the agreement, reached in Vienna with six world powers. According to some readings of the deal, it placed restrictions on Iran’s ambitious missile program.

Experts have been debating the interpretation of a United Nations Security Council resolution, adopted a few days after the accord was agreed upon, that bars Iran from developing missiles “designed to carry nuclear warheads.”

The White House will argue, of course, that the missile launch doesn’t violate the deal — not because it’s convinced that that’s true but because protecting Obama’s big diplomatic “achievement” obligates them to look the other way at any Iranian violation unless it’s indisputable. Returning to our definition of “leadership,” does that sound like leadership to you?

One side is testing weapons arguably banned by the new treaty, secure in the belief that the other side will make a de facto concession by not holding it against them. The other side does in fact make that concession. Which one has made a smart but risky decision to maximize its own advantage?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: climatechange; cloudcuckooland; obama; putin; syria
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1 posted on 10/12/2015 4:34:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Remove this guy. He’s obviously stark raving mad, and thereby incapacitated.


2 posted on 10/12/2015 4:35:55 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s hinting at a third term.


3 posted on 10/12/2015 4:36:24 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

Leading in correcting a pretend problem.


4 posted on 10/12/2015 4:36:45 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Louisiana Weasel - GOPe Plan C or make that D)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 10/12/2015 4:36:52 PM PDT by jennychase
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama is like a teenager who doesn’t actually try to make any sort of intelligent argument but simply repeats, “I’m right” and thinks that this is a convincing way to persuade others.


6 posted on 10/12/2015 4:37:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sorry, but I relish a visual of seeing Putin bitch-slapping Obama.


7 posted on 10/12/2015 4:37:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Phony leadership on a phony problem


8 posted on 10/12/2015 4:37:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imaginary leadership on an imaginary issue.


9 posted on 10/12/2015 4:38:08 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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10 posted on 10/12/2015 4:38:36 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sorry, FReepers, but the only word that comes to mind with this idiot is the colloquial term for a timid cat.


11 posted on 10/12/2015 4:38:53 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama is an embarrassment to the nation. He knows it, and appears on television every day just to rub it in. An ugly, evil man through and through.


12 posted on 10/12/2015 4:39:08 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh yeah, that’s definitely your version of “leadership” plus a couple of other things I could mention.


13 posted on 10/12/2015 4:39:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wish that someone during an interview would ask him one very simple question:

Q: What Percentage of the Atmosphere is CO2?

He will not know it.

Yet the Alarmists base everything off of CO2.


14 posted on 10/12/2015 4:39:42 PM PDT by Jayster
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To: SeekAndFind

He leaves a lot of folks breathless.. That’s for sure.. With his proclamations.. OBnoxious? Opportunistic? Obammy.


15 posted on 10/12/2015 4:40:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Putin & Obama remind me of the old "bear and the rabbit using the facilities in the woods" joke.

At the moment of truth, Putin asks Obama: "Excuse me - but do you have trouble with feces sticking to your hair?" 0bama looks puzzled, then says: "Why, no - I don't."

Putin then grabs the little sissy and uses his empty little head as toilet paper.

16 posted on 10/12/2015 4:41:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: SeekAndFind

Just when you think he couldn’t do or say something dumber than the last thing he said or did, he knocks it out of the park to another level of stupidity.


17 posted on 10/12/2015 4:41:39 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: SeekAndFind
This is like being down 28-0 at halftime of the Super Bowl and having your QB tell a reporter that baseball’s actually his best sport.

Bwahahaha!

18 posted on 10/12/2015 4:43:55 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Small thinker!!


19 posted on 10/12/2015 4:44:29 PM PDT by ontap
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To: SeekAndFind

Outside of his little media cult cocoon he does seem a bit lost. If he really does want to see the end of America as the superpower, then he is probably on the right track, but honestly they have not a clue what that entails. We are not going to be a docile 3000 mile wide Cuba.


20 posted on 10/12/2015 4:45:50 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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