Kroft’s cross-examination: Why Obama bombed on ’60 Minutes’. News Source

And you talked about the frustrations of trying to find a few and train them. “Who knows what America may come up with tomorrow-nobody trusts it anymore, not the elites and not the ordinary people”, said Tokon Mamytov, a former deputy prime minister of Kyrgyzstan who now teaches at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in Bishkek.

President Barack Obama said Sunday he believes he would win if he ran for president again and called his a year ago of the presidency “bittersweet”.

“My goal has been to try to test the proposition, can we be able to train and equip a moderate opposition that’s going to fight ISIL?” However, he told the broadcaster, until Assad is in power it is very hard to work so that attention is focused on ISIS.

Last week, the Pentagon announced a pause in the train and equip program for moderate Syrian opposition groups after the $500 million scheme failed to produce a credible force. And as the Obama administration has argued, it isn’t these disengagements but the regional overstretch under President George W. Bush that undermined America’s worldwide standing. “I mean, when Kroft starts pushing the president around because he’s basically been his, you know, buddy for the last seven years…”

KEARNS: Well, I think it’s important when talking about intelligence to make a distinction between very good sources of human intelligence, a spy essentially, and on the other hand, having access to what technology can bring, so satellite images which show you a military buildup.

Kroft told Obama, if you expected to train 5,000 men and you ended up with only five, it’s not just a “miscalculation”, it’s an “embarassment”. “Don’t try me. Because I’ll do it”. Because he thinks if you do nothing you can’t get in trouble.

“I don’t think he’ll end up being president of the United States”, Obama said.

Steve Kroft: It’s an embarrassment.

Speaking from the White House’s Roosevelt Room, he added: “Look, there’s no doubt that it did not work”. And, one of the challenges that I’ve had throughout this heartbreaking situation inside of Syria is, is that- you’ll have people insist that, you know, all you have to do is send in a few- you know, truckloads full of arms and people are ready to fight.

“The fact that they had to do this is not an indication of strength, it’s an indication that their strategy did not work”. Or, “If it had just started three months earlier it would’ve worked”.

President Barack Obama was flayed by “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft over his policy in Syria.

Putin boldly asserted his stance on Syria amidst news that Russian Federation is significantly increasing its military presence in the Middle East. Russian Federation has aligned its interests in Syria with Iran, another country with which the United States has a tenuous relationship. “Whoever you are in the region, you have a deep grudge against the United States”. Two, the Russians are conducting military operations in the Middle East for the first time since World War II.