Red Echo

September 11, 2013

Since when is the President-seemingly-for-life of Russia the sensible, measured, law-abiding one? This New York Times op-ed by Vladimir Putin responds to the proposal that America should bomb Syria, in order to punish whoever was responsible for the poison gas attack, and his carefully phrased, thoroughly diplomatic expression of concern about the long-term consequences of such makes far more sense than anything I’ve heard from Obama on the subject.