You did not read my post in its entirety, it seems.
In 07, in pitching for the Olympics, Putin gave speeches in both English and French to secure the Winter Games.
Too bad he's better at giving speeches than actually organizing a Winter Games that is safe and orderly.
Contrast this with Obamas' efforts, a few years ago, to secure the Summer Games for Chicago. It was embarrassing.
The incipient failure of the Sochi Games is equally embarrassing. Perhaps more so.
It's not about 'chemical weapons in Syria', it's about the Islamists attempt to take over the country. Just as they did in Egypt, Lybia . IMO, our administration has been complicit in their gains, Putins' Russia was not.
According to the transcript of Putin's speech I posted above, which you ignored, it is about chemical weapons.
There's a night and day difference between Obama and Putin. Obama is the former, and Putin is the latter.
The only difference between Putin and Obama is that Putin is a National Socialist and Obama is an International Socialist.
Just heard Rush refer to Putin as a KGB thug. Sad. Even he doesn't get it.
Good point. When has Rush ever been right about anything?
It's clearly normal for Americans to bow down in worship of a shirtless secret policeman than to critically examine who he is, what he does and what his personal history tells us.
Of course, I'm conversing with a person who does not even know what the Stasi were, and who Putin was to them.
So far no major problems. Hope nothing happens like when Germany held the summer games on the Islamist massacred a dozen? Israeli swimmers. Or when Mexico held the games they mowed down a bunch of student demonstrator prior to the games. How about you, would you like to see them fail or succeed.
Of course, I'm conversing with a person who does not even know what the Stasi were, and who Putin was to them.
Yeh, they were something like our present FBI and CIA rolled into one. Wasn't Bush 1 director of the CIA for a time? Does that make him a thug?
It's not perfect,but Russia is now a Democracy, probably more so than us. We should all appreciate that and benefit with them.