One Man's Soul Brother Is Another One's Despicable Dictator

Russian president Vladimir Putin is a former hit-man and spy for the KGB.  In the past few days, he has pissed away all his Olympic goodwill, trashed any semblance of reasonable relations with the civilized world, and has gone balls-out crazy -- a power-mad, imperialistic bird-flipper.  Ukrainians deposed one of Putin's droogies, so Vlad retaliated by promptly invading the Ukraine with 16,000 Russian troops.  Decades after the Soviet Union fell apart, this is reminiscent of the bad old days of the Cold War.  It's a dangerous, intentional act of provocation, and it's more than a little frightening.

Bush:  "I love you, man."
Putin:  "I love you too, Georgi.  How about we take
off our shirts and go horseback riding?"

Naturally, America's conservatives immediately blamed the whole thing on President Obama.  John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and all the usual Fox-bots were rattling sabres and calling Obama weak.

(Obama is thinking:  "This guy is just an intractable turd.  You
cannot reason with him.")
(Putin  is thinking:  "Why won't this Muslim take off his shirt
and go horseback riding with me?")

These are all the same right-o's who were silent over a decade ago when George W. Bush had his man-crush on Vladi.  Remember?  Dubya said he looked Putin in the eye and "saw into his soul."  As one web-wag put it today, Dubya must have missed something! 



The idea that Obama or any American president is responsible for the peace and security of the entire world is just absurd.  We cannot control all events, and no foreign policy, no matter how hard-ass, can ever guarantee that.  Nor should we want it to.

Putin has at last shown his true nature to the world.  Someone please tell me how we were supposed to prevent it.