[Luis Gonzalez]

Well, the "Putin for Pope" crowd will, arrive soon and try to paint the National Review as some sort of lefty rag.

It's simply amazing that people in this forum are so willing to embrace the rebirth of totalitarianism in Russia with such fervor.

Putin is dangerous.

[Indie]

It's simply amazing that people in this forum are so willing to embrace the rebirth of totalitarianism in Russia with such fervor.

Equally amazing are the people on this forum who find it necessary to paint Islam as a something other than totally evil.

[eleni121]

"This man (Putin) is dangerous"

Putin is dangerous? You certainly are off by a mile.

This is not Putin

[wideminded]

It's simply amazing that people in this forum are so willing to embrace the rebirth of totalitarianism in Russia with such fervor.

I think that many of the Putin defenders have Russian ties themselves. I recall once reading the theory that Russians pine for a harsh, ruthless leader. Apparently there is a word for this type of leader in Russian, which I won't attempt to present in Cyrillic font, but which is pronounced something like "hozain". This trend of masochistic psychology goes back to the days of serfdom.