Putin Bests Obama in UN Showdown on Syria | PJ Media

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Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin both spoke at the United Nations on Monday, with Putin reiterating a call he made in September for an international coalition against jihad terror and the Islamic State in particular. Obama again rebuffed that call, although this time he left the door slightly open to some kind of cooperation with Russia.

The sticking point is Bashar Assad — and the differences that Obama and Putin have over Assad’s regime demonstrate yet again that when it comes to the jihad threat, Putin is assessing the situation realistically while Obama is operating in the realm of politically correct fantasy.

Putin skewered those fantasies in his UN speech Monday when he noted the failure of the Arab Spring to do what Barack Obama and the entire political and media elites insisted it would do: bring to the Middle East a flowering of democracy and freedom:

Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?

No, they don’t realize what they have done, and they’re poised to do more of it.

They still occupy the corridors of power. Those who warned at the time that the “Arab Spring” would in fact lead to “violence, poverty and social disaster” were dismissed and derided — we continue to be dismissed and derided — as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.”

No matter how often the establishment analysts get things wrong, and disastrously, fatally so, they never get called to account, and they keep applying the same failed solutions over and over again.

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