[jwalsh07]

Putin is a commie pos and while you can take Putin out of the KGB you will never take the KGB out of Putin. The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

[marvel5]

• “Vladimir Putin — yes, he was an officer of the intelligence services, but he was not a KGB investigator, nor was he the head of a camp in the gulag. As for service in foreign intelligence, that is not a negative in any country — sometimes it even draws praise. George Bush Sr. was not much criticized for being the ex-head of the CIA, for example.”

“Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible — a slow and gradual restoration. These efforts were not noticed, nor appreciated, immediately. In any case, one is hard pressed to find examples in history when steps by one country to restore its strength were met favorably by other governments.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, author of “The Gulag Archipelago,” now required reading in Russian schools.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-with-alexander-solzhenitsyn-i-am-not-afraid-of-death-a-496211.html

[Ohioan]

You have a right to take exception to the policy of friend or foe. But you have no moral right to publish silly nonsense, as fact.

Putin has restored the role of religion in Russia--a total contradiction of Communist dogma & purpose. Putin has reconnected Russia to her ancient heritage, restored aspects of Czarist culture, and pride in history--that is hardly Communistic.

The KGB served an evil Government; but it was primarily a technocratic or functional rather than an ideological apparatus. Putin deserves to be judged by what has done since; whether you or I like all, most or any of it.

And he should be Blessed for doing what no one else has dared to do with respect to the present crisis.

[Chgogal]

You are right. Sad thing, Putin makes Obama look like a steamy smelly pile of pig crap. That is the tragedy.

[caww]

Call Putin what you will....he's the only one who's gone after ISIS full bore.....and I really don't care what his motives are....or how he goes about.....the job needs doing of and I'm for any 'willing' to do so with everything they got!

Meanwhile Obama drops leaflets... let's ISIS know they're coming 45 minutes before bombs hit so they can run...go figure!....