[GOPJ]

True. As you say Kristol is a 'particularly NASTY piece of work’.

Kristol’s the face of everything we hate about the Republican Establishment...he's leader of the ‘most obnoxious wing...’

That said, while Russia IS the excuse the Kristol/McCain types use to shake the taxpayer money tree and to over-fund the Deep State... we have to be careful NOT to let the pendulum swing to far.

Communism's not our friend... BUT they're also not the Bogeyman. Truth is somewhere in between.

Putin runs a country with a GDP about the size of Italy... he's foe - but NOT monstrous foe. He's not worth funding a massive paranoid surveillance State BUT ALSO NOT worth accepting as ‘friend’ at face value ...New lines are being drawn. We have time to get them right.

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. can't even send astronauts to the International Space Station without using Russia's Soyuz rockets. I believe there are three personnel up there right now -- two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut who is the mission commander.

How much of a "foe" are the Russians, really?

[Ohioan]

The Kristols--father & son--are not ex-Democrats, but Ex-Communists with delusions of grandeur. From the father's own words:

See Neocon Phenomenon.