Posted on 04/02/2014 6:48:09 AM PDT by No One Special
Two op-ed columns, one from last week by former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and one from six years ago by CNN/Newsweek pundit Fareed Zakaria, highlight the mind-boggling failure of left-wing policy on Russia during the Obama administration, and indicate that our current president has led us down a dead-end street of endless disaster and disgrace.
Fareed Zakaria
On April 26, 2008, just as that year’s epic presidential campaign shifted into high gear, Newsweek’s Zakaria published a vicious, scathing personal attack on John McCain. Zakaria accused McCain of being mentally ill for advocating the ouster of Russia from the G-8 in response to Vladimir Putin’s renewed cold war against the West. Last week, as Russia was ousted from the G-8, Zakaria became perhaps the most humiliated columnist in American political history.
In that 2008 column, Zakaria called McCain “schizophrenic” and “radical” and said that listening to his “neoconservative posturing” about Russia filled Zakaria with “sadness.” Zakaria expressed support for what he termed a “decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating [Russia] into the global order” and asked plaintively: “What would be the gain from so alienating” the “great power” known as Russia?
Zakaria wasn’t alone; even some in the Bush administration were with him. McClatchy quoted an anonymous “senior U.S. official who deals with Russia policy” as stating: “It’s not even a theoretical discussion. It's an impossible discussion. It's just a dumb thing.” McClatchy explained that America’s G-8 partners “would never agree to toss Russia, given their close economic ties to their neighbor.”
The Bush administration, of course, knew from dumb. You remember George Bush, the fellow who “looked into Putin’s eyes” and “glimpsed his soul” and pronounced him a trustworthy partner.
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NATO is planning exercises in eastern Ukraine. No doubt that will keep the crisis simmering. Wonder if German troops will participate? During their free time they can tidy up the graves of the Wehrmacht or perhaps dig new ones.
NATO has done essentially nothing following the first annexation of European territory since WW2. You are day dreaming if you think NATO is escalating this situation.
Actually, Russia has been very cooperative lately with the Germans regarding the recovery and reburial of WWII German dead.
Stalin wasn't very sentimental about the German Military's war dead. He had all the graves dug up and had the bodies dumped in mass unmarked graves.
I don’t think he was too sentimental about the Soviet dead either— many of them were left to rot where they fell. It was only after the fall of the Soviet Union that some private groups started collecting and burying the bones.
When Stalin died they should have taken his worthless corpse to a secret location and let the scavengers have him.
On April 26, 2008, just as that year’s epic presidential campaign shifted into high gear, Newsweek’s Zakaria published a vicious, scathing personal attack on John McCain. Zakaria accused McCain of being mentally ill for advocating the ouster of Russia from the G-8 in response to Vladimir Putin’s renewed cold war against the West. Last week, as Russia was ousted from the G-8, Zakaria became perhaps the most humiliated columnist in American political history. In that 2008 column, Zakaria called McCain “schizophrenic” and “radical” and said that listening to his “neoconservative posturing” about Russia filled Zakaria with “sadness.” Zakaria expressed support for what he termed a “decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating [Russia] into the global order” and asked plaintively: “What would be the gain from so alienating” the “great power” known as Russia?What's Zakaria's FR nick?
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