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What made me think we could trust the former leader of the KGB as an ally? >>
>>He is making (and will continue to make) Obama look like an absolute amateur.
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>My grandma could do that (and she's been dead for 30 years).
For generations, eminent New York Times wordsmiths have swooned over foreign strongmen, from Walter Duranty's Pulitzer-winning paeans to the Stalinist utopia to Thomas L. Friedman's more recent effusions to the "enlightened" Chinese politburo.
So it was inevitable that the cash-strapped Times would eventually figure it might as well eliminate the middle man and hire the enlightened strongman direct. Hence Vladimir Putin's impressive debut on the op-ed page this week.
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Mark Steyn
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/091313-671009-washington-anoints-putin-as-international-peacemaker.htm?p=full
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