The Tsar of All the Concern Trolls
"It is simply false that “there is every reason to believe” that the poison-gas attack was conducted by opposition forces and not by Assad’s Army. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe the exact opposite. (Please note, in passing, the pious cleverness of that last sentence, in which Putin gift wraps his whopper in a beribboned package of worried concern for the well-being of Israel.)
Putin’s mendacity is mainly an exercise in hypocrisy. His method is as much a matter of what he leaves out as what he puts in, as a line-by-line analysis by the Washington Post’s Max Fisher suggests. What Putin puts in, for the most part, is a succession of elegantly restated points that are identical with those made in good faith by American and Europe opponents of air strikes or the threat of air strikes."