NEW YORK TIMES: … [Russia President Vladimir] Putin’s message in a New York Times op-ed piece also warned that President Barack Obama’s national address on Tuesday night about America’s leadership in the world as part of its “exceptionalism” was simply “dangerous.”.
“A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa…
“No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria,” he wrote. “But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored.” (more)
