[RepublicNewbie]

Greeting Late night freepers. I'm normally a morning guy but since I'm up late I offer this piece by Pat Buchanan.

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[pissant]

Pat would be all for dissing Putin if he said he supported Israel agains the arab hordes.

[Thunder90]

Oil is the reason that we bait putin....

[MJY1288]

PJB needs to keep his head buried in the sand when it comes to foreign policy, every time he pulls his head out of the sand, he quickly manages to put it where the Sun doesn't shine

[concerned about politics]

Buchanan just loves the attention, doesn't he? I suppose the guy has to do something for a living these days, aye?
Another day, another Buchanan opinion. There's hundreds of 'em out there .... somewhere.

[pawdoggie]

Pat tends to forget inconvenient facts, like the fact that we financed the Soviet redeployment out of Western Europe, and the additional tens of billions in loan guarantees to keep the Russians afloat financially. What kind of return have we gotten on our investment in the Russsian "democratic" experiment? Try a crackdown on free enterprise and dissent by KGB Agent Putin, Russian weapons sales to countries that were overtly or covertly fighting us (Iraq, Iran, Syria), zero pressure on the North Koreans to end their nuclear program or missile sales, Russian failure to "close ranks" on sanctions against Iran if they don't end their nuclear enrichment.

What do we have to gain from "antagonizing" Putin? The better question is: "what have we got to lose"?

[LenS]

Like any good National Socialist, Pat knows that he's got to make a deal with the communists to topple the evil capitalists with their prosperity and freedom.

*sigh* And to think he actually worked in the Reagan administration.

[TheCrusader]

"What is the purpose of this confrontation diplomacy?"

Does Buchanan know that Russia has been blackmailing the Ukraine, and the world, with price fixing on oil and natural gas? Does he even know that Russia has been sticking a knife in America's, Europe's and Israel's backs by thwarting our efforts to halt Iran's nuclear bomb-making materials? Iran is a hostile dictatorship, run by true madmen, hence giving tacit support to their nuclear ambitions makes Russia far more confrontational than Cheney was.

I used to like Buchanan, but I think he needs meds or something now. His thinking is great one day, (such as immigration reform), but then he loses all credibility the next day by writing nonsense like this.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" once, but the Soviet Union we confronted in those years was hostile. Until lately, today's Russia was not.

I wonder what Russia has done lately which would make Pat suggest that Russia is now hostile to us.

Russia didn't support Saddam Hussein? Russia didn't make billions on Saddam's UN Oil for Palaces Scam? Russia just started supporting Iran recently?

Maybe Russia's newfound support for HAMAS is what Pat is talking about. Somehow I doubt it.

If we don't want these people in our backyard, what are we doing in theirs?

Why is Putin selling Hugo Chavez fighter jets, attack helicopters and thousands of rifles?

[RusIvan]

What does McCain think we would accomplish -- other than a new parading of our moral superiority -- by so public an insult to Putin and Russia as a Bush boycott of the St. Petersburg summit? Do we not have enough trouble in this world, do we not have enough people hating us and Bush that we have to get into Putin's face and antagonize the largest nation on earth and a co-equal nuclear power? What is the purpose of this confrontation diplomacy? What does it accomplish?==

Good questions. Cheney picked up on most popular leader of Russia today. Russian people won't like it at all. What Cheney did just rise up the anti-americanism in Russia on record altitude. He did so stupid that it is unbeleiveable.

Cheney "killed" Vlad Rizhkov already. Guy just disappeared from political scene. No one can find him and get interview:). Rizhkov is new "political dead" now.
Interesting how many more "russian democrates" Cheney will "kill"?

[CBart95]

Congratulations Guys! (Well, all, save for Russian who is so biased as to be blithering.)

Your clear eyed appraisal of our dubious "ally" is wonderfully right on the money. Those bastards are our direct enemy willfully financing and sponsoring calumny on a worldwide basis.

And most everyone here knows it.

All of us fully expect them to be on the enemy side when Iran must be dealt with. And from all that is developing, the UN will be "without a chair" when the music stops along with Russia and China and the rest of the Arab world.

[TChris]

[Russia]...the largest nation on earth and a co-equal nuclear power?

Pat, what exactly have you been smoking?

[Zack Nguyen]

Because, Pat, Putin is compromising the Russia's democratic reforms and arming Iran. That's why we criticize him. Is it so hard for him to understand?

[Constantine XIII]

Because he's funny when he's mad.