True, President Putin isn't known for White House
or even Bush-like diplomacy, even with Saudi royalty. A famous foto shows Bush
holding hands with Prince Bandar on the White House lawn. Putin this week chose
a meeting with Prince Salman to announce Russia's response to the recent
kidnapping and murder of four of its Embassy workers in Baghdad: "Find
and destroy!"
This incident has strained the impatience
with Bush's continued inability, after three years, to pacify Baghdad etc. (The Russians have no tradition of politically correct warfare and in fact have revived an old custom of hunting down terrorists anywhere on earth.) The
Russians, Saddam-friendly, opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but have agreed to
keep an Embassy there.
Does Putin, despite the Saddamite deals, have a
point? Or is he just being a martial arts, ex-KGB agent who would see George
Bush as an Ivy Leaguer playing cowboy, the NY Times' "Pinch" Sulzberger a
treasonous Trust Fund baby in need of a lynching, and the ACLU a
pretentious running roach with homosexual tendencies?
In other words, is Vlad Putin making sense to Americans, or is he just
being a real Russian?
BlogWorld As for one of the epicenters of World Jihad, Alexandra at Allthingsbeautiful looks at the latest escalation between Israelis and Palestinians in "Total War"
Vlad an impaler? Gringoman est-que ce perdu votre marbles? Oui? Tant-pis!
There is Vlad, the warrior, and there is Vlad, the rhetoritican. Just like we do most americans, Vlad talks and we ignore.
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