President Barack Obama speaks at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, Sept. 27, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP/Andrew Harnik)President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia’s military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region. He vowed not to let the conflict become a U.S.-Russia “proxy war.”At a White House news conference, Obama pledged to stay the course with his strategy of supporting moderate rebels who oppose Syrian President Bashar Assad, but he dodged questions about whether the U.S. would protect them if they came under Russian attack.Russia’s dramatic …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
