By the way, current post Yeltsin hostility to Russia has zero to do with Russia selling arms to Syria, a traditonal client state of Russia since Czarist times (Russia had a special treaty with the Turks allowing her to serve as Syrian Christianity's protector).
Syria, is not under UN sanctions and America had no problem with Syria as an ally in the first Gulf War.
Nice attempt at moral equivalence - the last refuge of the morally bankrupt.
Look, the title of the article was about why much of the American media is anti-Russian. I'm sorry, but having Russia sell arms to Syria, given the current situtation, is a serious affront to our security interets, and shows that Russia deserves a lot of the grief they are getting, considering that Russia is trying to claim that they are an ally of ours. Allies don't do that.
I don't give a rat's ass about the UN. They are under OUR sanctions - but Russia is so concerned about our national security interests that they are selling arms to a country we have under sanctions for sponsoring terrorism - at a time when fighting terrorism is our top national security issue. But you are doing your best to downplay that fact.
and America had no problem with Syria as an ally in the first Gulf War.
Yeah, and Japan was our ally in WWI. Guess we should have just blown off that Pearl Harbor thingy because of that.
Any more nonsense you want to spew into this thread?