Pootie and Islamo MFCS

To Russia With ... Hate

“   On that very day [9/11/2001], President George W. Bush began his address to the nation with the assertion that "our way of life — our very freedom — came under attack." He said, "America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." Certainly no one can say that about the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB operative who has done everything in his power to maintain an undemocratic grasp on power and darken his countrymen's opportunities for freedom — including his likely being behind the murder in London four years ago of dissident Russian journalist Alexander Litvinenko, courtesy of a radioactive isotope slipped into his tea. ”

Old Habits, etrc. Help me out here.  Was it Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising that had as it's plot a supposedly economically crippled CCCP getting aid from the U.S., while  preparing to send tanks into Germany?  Due diligence kept that scenario in my brain after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. But with the siege on old-liners holed up in Moscow's White House, I became a believer. [Tangential Obama discourse]  George Bush's Pootie-Poo show, very similar in retrospect to FDR's Uncle Joe attempt to humanize Stalin, was also somewhat disarming.  Today, I think Tom Clancy is back in business, doing what he does best; writing extremely accurate novels about the Evil Empire Rising. Oh. I love that Iran's sponsored Islamo terrorists are biting the hand that feeds them nuclear capability. Do it again.