It's Official: Barack Obama Is Now A Lame Duck President By Con Coughlin September 11th, 2013!
If any lesson is to be drawn from Barack Obama's White House speech, it is that he has no interest in providing the kind of decisive leadership we have come to expect from American presidents.
For anyone hoping for a clear explanation of where Obama stands on the Syria issue, last night's speech failed to provide the answers. The president says he wants to give Russia's proposal to disarm Syria a chance, and therefore doesn't want Congress to vote on whether or not to take military action.
But if, as is widely expected, the Russian proposal turns out to be nothing more than a diplomatic red herring, then Mr Obama will think again. i.e. we will be back to square one, with the White House still dithering over whether it should punish the Assad regime for using chemical weapons against its own people.
As I write in my column today, one of West's biggest problems with Syria is that, unlike the Russians and Iran, its leaders seem incapable of laying out a strategic vision of how best to resolve the crisis.
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