[CNN reporting is in " " , My comment follows in bold italics]
"Russians and Americans have been duking it out in the Twitter world over who's scoring more points in high-stakes diplomatic wrangling over Syria, U.S. President Barack Obama or Russian President Vladimir Putin".
It seems the Syria issue has become a game to the Russian and American populace, they have lost sight of the fact that real and actual people are dying in the conflict in Syria.
Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted Thursday: "Three days ago there seemed no diplomatic way to hold Assad accountable. Threat of U.S. action finally brought Russia to the table." Threat of U.S action finally brought Russia to the table? Are you nuts? if this was a game as the nationals of these two nations seem to think I would say Russia was already at the table but needed an opening or opportunity to show its presence.
In her tweet, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia's English-language television network RT, quipped: "If the Russian proposal on Syria works, Obama, as an honest man, has to give his Nobel Prize to Putin."
Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted Thursday: "Three days ago there seemed no diplomatic way to hold Assad accountable. Threat of U.S. action finally brought Russia to the table." Threat of U.S action finally brought Russia to the table? Are you nuts? if this was a game as the nationals of these two nations seem to think I would say Russia was already at the table but needed an opening or opportunity to show its presence.
In her tweet, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia's English-language television network RT, quipped: "If the Russian proposal on Syria works, Obama, as an honest man, has to give his Nobel Prize to Putin."
Is Putin so desperate for a Noble Prize that he would use retrieving the weapons (chemical weapons his country developed and sold to Syria as a opportunity to get one and not just anyone but Obama's?
The world knows that the reason Russia jumped at the opportunity to collect the chemical weapons from Syria is because Russia developed it and sold it to Syria and is afraid that should the chemical weapons get into the hands of the Americans, the U.S would speedily develop the antidote hence rendering Russia's use of it in the advent of a war, pointless.
"Putin stopped Obama's drive for military action against Syria in its tracks this week as Russia's plan to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control pushes the action to the United Nations, just where Putin wants it."
"Putin stopped Obama's drive for military action against Syria in its tracks this week as Russia's plan to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control pushes the action to the United Nations, just where Putin wants it."
Well actually Mr. Kerry running his mouth stopped Obama's drive for military action against Syria in its tracks and gave the so-called advantage to Mr. Putin.
”Some Russians claim that Obama "owes" Putin for getting him out of a bind. Alexey Pushkov, chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, tweeted tartly: "Obama should be 'for' Russia's plan with two hands. It gives him a chance not to start a new war, not lose in the Congress, and not become another Bush,"
Actually, Putin needs to be grateful to Mr. Kerry for providing the opportunity for Russia to retrieve its chemical weapons from Syria (on the pretense that the weapons would be destroyed), saving them the embarrassment of being discovered as the agents who developed and sold this WMD to the Syrian regime for use against its people.
Russia merely jumped on the opportunity created by Mr. Kerry and is now play that card like it's doing the international community a favour.
"The White House is trying to throw the ball back to Putin, cautioning that his chemical weapons proposal will boomerang if it doesn't work." Putin "now owns this. He has fully asserted ownership of it, and he needs to deliver," a senior White House official told CNN."
Putin knows what he has to do and he is doing everything he can to make sure the fons et origo of the chemical weapons is not traced back to Russia.
"Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and former deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, tweeted: "If Kerry-Lavrov meeting exposes Russian proposal as sham, it will strengthen Obama's hand with Congress, assuring what Putin hopes to stop."
This is if and only if Assad does not comply with the terms his Russian ally lays on the table and indeed it is a very big IF.
Here is the link to the original story ... http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/politics/syria-putin-analysis/?hpt=hp_t1