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Save the day?

As you may or may not know, Assad was accused by the West of using chemical weapons – which is a universal no-no – against Syrian rebels. America wants the West to intervene. Britain, France (and Germany) dithered – presumably they don’t want to see another Afghanistan or Iraq.

Afghanistan or Iraq?

Well, if you know nothing about what’s happened to Afghanistan or Iraq, don’t bother. The long and short of the current Syrian crisis is, Russia came to the fore and offered something all parties were able to agree with and therefore, saved the day.

Preventing, that is, another military intervention by American-led forced in the Middle East and thus preventing something terribly bad from happening.

When I say something terribly bad, I’m talking about war in general. As a matter of fact, where individual warring parties are concerned, nothing is all bad. Something bad to one party, you see, must be good or neutral to someone else. For example, the Putin initiative is good for Assad, but not for Syrian rebels, who want Assad to go.

It may not be that good for America, either, for America, among other things, also wants Assad to go.

However, Putin’s initiative is good for America in that it prevents further embarrassment as Obama’s ineptitude in international leadership and diplomacy begin to become obvious.

Putin’s initiative also prevents Britain and France from further losing face – they don’t know what to do, having been unable to offer an alternative while they don’t have full support domestically for going along with America’s Syrian policy.