Posted on 09/13/2013 10:53:01 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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He the egoist sparingly uses “I”; our president the supposed consensus builder does so promiscuously. He reminded us of the demonstrably true fact that there are Islamists in the Syrian opposition and of the probably false fact that the Assad government is not using WMD. In general, Putin has conveyed a tougher military stance that has the president of the far more powerful U.S., a more humanitarian image than our smart- and soft-power leadership (do we still remember Hillary’s public chortle over Qaddafi — “We came, we saw, he died”?), and a more internationalist pose than our Nobel-laureate internationalist.
Putin lecturing Obama on the sacred value of the U.N. — who’da thunk it?
If a Russian dissident wrote and published a cry of the heart to the Russian people, begging Vladimir Putin to stop his harassment of opposition groups, journalists, gays, and ethnic activists and to moderate his behavior toward the former Soviet republics, he would either be jailed or disappear. That we not merely forget that fact, but are now increasing unaware of it, is testament to Putin’s political genius, which has capitalized on each embarrassing American misstep.
That we now receive sermons from Putin not just about morality, but even about U.S. self-interest, and that such advice is only two-thirds fantasy is testament to our own recent ineptitude and confusion — and, yes, to this administration’s bad habit of engaging in its own fantasies and obfuscations.
Sadly, Putin is now an impressive creature — but one in part of our own making.
Mr. Putin, the fact that you are a more adroit Machiavellian than our own president is a Wilsonian proves only that you are the superior strategist — not the moralist you imagine yourself, and surely not more moral than the president whom you seem so easily to embarrass.
Then why don't I ever see you writing in support of Ahmadinejad, or Rouhani for that matter?
If Assad Pest Control is spraying for Salafist cockroaches, how is this a problem for us?
Homosexuals desire their own extinction...
If Muslims are willing to give it to them, I don’t have to interfere.
I wash my hands like Pontius Pilate.
You didn’t answer my question. I’ll add another . . . why the man-love (pun intended) for Vladi?
“If Assad Pest Control is spraying for Salafist cockroaches, how is this a problem for us?”
My post above is clear that it is not in our interest to assist the rebel AQ affiliated cockroaches who mean to kills us.
Putin is a warrior’s warrior... he has bushido...
And even if he is on the opposite side of the battlefield, he has my respect.
I just don’t see him as an enemy.
I’d ask you a question, but I really don’t give a damn what you think, I don’t have to...
And, frankly, your support of a flat tax and anti-homo whatever is perfectly cool with me. It's just your support of Putin that makes you look like a moron.
Putin supports the Russian Orthodox Church...
Yeah, he probably still has them on speed-dial from his days in the KGB. /s
Go fork yourself...
Hey, don’t be angry . . . there is common ground. You and I have the flat-tax and anti-homo thing. It’s just the imprisonment of opponents, sentencing them after their death, mafia corruption, wholesale looting of government assets, and shutting down dissident media that troubles me a bit.
“You’re a legend in your own mind.”
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