Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
It's not a matter of trust. I wouldn't trust either Obama or Putin. Actually, I would trust Obama to generally make the wrong decision for America. He has a track record after all.
The point is that Putin is making a sensible argument and Obama is not. Obama is already providing weapons to the "rebels", ie al qaeda. How is that in our interests? Assad may be a brutal dictator, but as far as I know, he hasn't crossed us.
Obama apparently didn't learn a thing from his disasters in Egypt and Libya. Now he is trying to destabilize yet another middle eastern country, with the worst terrorist factions waiting in the wings to take over. Somebody tell me how that helps us?