West unfairly 'demonize' Putin, Russian president best partner for US – Stephen Cohen

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6. Once in Syria, and maybe again with Iran.

Obama can't control the neocon burrowers in his administration - as is demonstrated AGAIN by Victoria Nuland (husband of uber-neocon, Robert Kagan) who basically stage managed the Kiev protests, vetted a bunch of anti-semitic street thugs for cabinet posts in the new government, and did photo ops with the demonstrators WHILE the democratically elected president was still in office.

Our ambassador to another country was openly plotting with violent demonstrators.

And Obama just let it happen, AGAIN.

He keeps getting suckered into situations that could lead to shooting wars by neocons and neocon-lites like Hillary, who was all gung ho to attack Syria. Putin gave him not only a diplomatic way out; he actually made that civil war more contained and much more conventional.

I am sick of paying for neocon wars that do nothing to help democracy, but a lot to help our military industrial complex and the stable of dictators we have around the world.

I think Obama wants to end the wars in general, but nobody, except Putin, has given him a hand in dealing with the neocons.