25. Arius:
“I think the premise of this article is a big mistake. The American people don’t care about Russia, the issue now is the economy where Obama is blowing it big time. If there is a foreign policy lever against Obama it’s Iran and Honduras, but not Russia.”
I don’t think that whether or not the American people “care about Russia” or anything else should be the criteria for what is under discussion. The American people’s “group judgment” has been abysmal in the last 12 months in case you hadn’t noticed.
Not meaning to be unkind re your comment–but I’m not impressed with “what the American people care about”–considering that over 30 million thought it was necessary to waste hours of their life staring at a gold box on tv yesterday.
Anyway, this part of the American people cares very much about Russia today. I am presently reading Anna Politkovskaya (mentioned in the article as one of the recent martyrs to freedom in Russia)…”A Russian Diary”. She died before it was published, but it documents what is happening under Putin–openly happening.
Makes my skin crawl, as his arrogance, lawlessness and openess mirror those of Col. Obama.
