Doctor Krauthammer has a new column on Vladimir Putin up at the National Review Online
My favorite part of the piece:
There is something amusing about criticism of the use of force by the man who turned Chechnya into a smoldering ruin; about the invocation of international law by the man who will not allow Scotland Yard to interrogate the polonium-soaked thugs it suspects of murdering Alexander Litvinenko, yet another Putin opponent to meet an untimely and unprosecuted death; about the bullying of other countries decried by a man who cuts off energy supplies to Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus in brazen acts of political and economic extortion.
I can't say that I'm the greatest fan of Dr. Krauthammer, but I do think that this column is funny. I am, however, of at least two minds about Mr. Putin: On the one hand, yay, a Russian leader who doesn't bang his shoe and threaten the atomic annihilation of the West. On the other hand, the man is clearly a repressive and totalitarian thug. The question in my mind is, as usual, "How do we make use of him to serve the interests of the several States (and the Commonwealth)?"
The answer to that, I don't know.
Posted by Country Pundit at February 16, 2007 01:49 AM