By MICHAEL R. GORDON
and GARDINER HARRIS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
UNITED NATIONS — After circling each
other for the past year, President Obama
and President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia squared off on Monday at the
United Nations in dueling speeches that
presented starkly different views on the
Syrian crisis and how to bring stability
to the Middle East.
President Obama made a forceful
defense of diplomacy and the system of
rules represented by the international
body, but in a veiled reference to Mr.
Putin, he warned that “dangerous
currents risk pulling us back into a
darker, more disordered world.”
Mr. Putin talked about mounting a broad
effort to support Syria ’s president,
Bashar al-Assad , as the best bulwark
against the spread of the Islamic State
and other radical groups, even though
the White House has said Mr. Assad has
to leave power if there is to be a political
solution in Syria.
Beyond the verbal jousting and steely
looks over lunch after the morning
speeches, however, the two leaders were
still playing a subtle game of diplomatic
poker, each trying to maneuver the other
into shifting his position.
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