Only in the eyes of the willfully blind. Russia has been the primary source of all the world's suffering for at least sixty years and must be utterly destroyed if we're ever to see peace again in this old world.
Agreed. Russia and America have represented two possible futures for humanity for centuries. Despotism and obedience versus freedom and initiative. Russia has no chance of winning that battle. But with the help of useful idiots, they might still destroy us.
And to those waving the bloody Beslan flag, that atrocity not only confirmed the evil of Islamic jihadis, it also confirmed the more subtle evil of Putin. His first response was too bungle the situation with the same incompetent drunken thugs Russia calls soldiers and his second response was to replace democratically elected provincial governors with appointed toadies.
Imagine if Bush’s only response to 9/11 was to remove all fifty state governors and replace them with appointees. It only confirms that Putin is a thug with the skills of a street gang leader.