Putin opens Benghazi door for Obama

Putin opens Benghazi door for Obama: Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement of solidarity with the United States over the crisis in Libya - so strikingly different to "I-told-you-so" homilies from China - amounts to a dramatic call for new thinking to mould the Arab Spring. Were Barack Obama to take the hint and work with Russian views on the political transformation of Syria, a new vista of possibilities would open. - M K Bhadrakumar (Sep 14, '12)