I am sure his conversation with Putin had more to do with Snowden than it did Syria.
Just like the conversion Bush had with Putin that time at the China summit had more to do with
missiles in Poland than it did civil rights abuses.
Remember this was the time that Putin pointed at Bush and basically told Bush to put it where the
sun don't shine. But they were such good friends.
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Somehow I think this conversation was even more a one-way discourse..Putin talking and Obama listening (and squirming).
Gone are the days when at Rekyavik, Iceland...Reagan told Gorbachev "NYET !"..and the Berlin wall started to crumble.
Of course, back then our leaders could point out how the commies snooped into their citizen's personal business, made everyone vassals of a central government, lied in a wholesale manner to their people and occasionally used some few of their citizens as "sacrificial sheep". We could complain that the commie powers grew the government, made most of their "news agencies" as lap dogs to the government, who conveniently lied for the administration.
We could harp at them how government "central Planning" messed up industry, commerce and encroached on the few personal liberties the people still had left...
...But now, Putin, Castro, Kin Jung Un or any other commie leader can simply say; " Back at you! The pot can't very well call the stove black...so don't even begin to talk !"