Putin Takes The Lead

Putin reflects: Obama, I'm kicking your ...

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: A number of world leaders addressed the United Nation's General Assembly yesterday. But one man stole the show and made it clear that he was willing to fill the vacuum left by America's retreat under Obama -- Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As one New York Post columnist put it: "Obama has turned Putin into the world's most powerful leader." Even the usually sympathetic left-wing media could see it too, evidenced by this headline, "Putin Steals Obama's Thunder On the World Stage." Consider these excerpts:
"The Russian president showed up at the United Nations on Monday for the first time in a decade, proposing a coup against U.S. global leadership and seeking to wrest control of a coalition battling ISIS away from America's grip. And he wasn't the only leader of a country challenging the United States to effectively upstage Obama at the annual global meeting, which a U.S. president traditionally uses to command the spotlight.

"Speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the 70th anniversary of the creation of the world body also left Obama defending not only his personal foreign policy legacy . . . but the entire concept of a world order based on seven decades of U.S. global leadership."My friends, that blistering account of Obama's failed leadership was from CNN, not Fox News.

And there's more. The New York Times reports, "Russia Surprises U.S. With Accord On Battling ISIS." The Times tells us that "For the second time this month, Russia moved to expand its political and military influence" in the Middle East "and left the United States scrambling." Russia is taking the lead in fighting ISIS. Iraq, Iran and Syria will now coordinate their war efforts with Moscow. Axis of evil, anyone?

Who can blame them? Obama called ISIS a "junior varsity" team. He has no strategy to defeat the radical Islamists. In fact, the Taliban are making a comeback in Afghanistan too.

Elliott Abrams, an expert on foreign policy and national security, analyzed Obama's U.N. speech yesterday. He writes that Obama's speech was "filled with nice lines that unfortunately bear no relationship . . . to reality."

Abrams notes Obama's tough talk against the Assad regime, writing that Obama "stood firmly for inaction."

Obama criticized Russian aggression in Ukraine, saying that the world "cannot stand by when the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a nation is flagrantly violated." Abrams adds that Obama is "precisely 'standing by.'"

Time and again the world has watched Obama draw redlines and make grand pronouncements, only to do nothing. Abrams charitably concluded his analysis by writing, "Today was vintage Obama, and one can only be thankful that his next U.N. speech will be his last."
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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