Fox News security analyst K.T. McFarland attacked President Obama as “egoistical but incompetent” and claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for throwing “Obama a lifeline” on Syria.

In a September 10 column on FoxNews.com, McFarland credited Putin with offering Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry “a way out of the mess they'd created” for the proposal to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control. MacFarland went on to say “the world knows that Vladimir Putin is the one who really deserves that Nobel Peace Prize” for saving “the world from near-certain disaster”:

The fact is Obama seemed headed for an attack on Syria that no one wanted and few thought would succeed.  Most thought it would only end in disaster, either with the U.S. drawn into an attack/retaliation cycle of escalation that could go on for years and spread into a regional war, or result in the overthrow of President Assad by an Al Qaeda affiliated rebels.

While the Russians may have toyed with the idea of letting American get bogged down in yet another losing Middle East war, they didn't want to risk a war that might pull them in, or lose control of the Assad government to radical Sunni jihadists.

So Putin stepped in and threw Obama a lifeline. 

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The Washington press corps will no doubt believe him, as usual, and lavish their usual praise. 

But the world knows that Vladimir Putin is the one who really deserves that Nobel Peace Prize.  

McFarland's column continues Fox News' campaign to discredit Obama by praising frequent human rights violator Putin.