Poopin' on Putin

i predicted this in my post the other day...

you can be sure that, given the source, even liberals and progressives will be tempted to dismiss such criticism as merely global political posturing...

'course, not like anyone with two brain cells to rub together COULDN'T have predicted it...

Since the speech, Putin has been excoriated in the U.S. press. As usual, such intense vitriol is reserved for people who bring up inconvenient truths about U.S. policy. Of course, Putin didn’t say anything that was untrue, and that’s the reason for the intense anger in the United States.

Americans have never been very good at looking at their government in the mirror. They see the cogent and pithy words of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison about our system of government and reach the conclusion that the United States can do no wrong in the international arena because it has one of the world’s best systems at home. Yet the two have nothing to do with each other.

This unquestioning attitude when dealing with other countries I label the “Tarzan foreign policy,” which assumes “we good, you bad.” In other words, in this distorted mental framework, aggressive U.S. actions would not be tolerated if another country did them.

i have repeatedly maintained that this is one of the reasons bush and his criminal cronies have continued to perpetrate the most outrageous deeds, shredding the constitution, and other such nefarious hi-jinks, and still manage to remain in office... we, the american people, are so brainwashed into believing that our country can do no wrong, we simply can't bring ourselves to believe that crooks are calling the shots...

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