Russia is right...
With a genuine moron running the show it would seem that Vlad has it right!
And Russia is correct.
Russia is right on this one but don’t let the unamerican neo cons hear you admit that.
Despite Qaddafi's long older history of terrorist support and murder, this is, in fact, accurate.
Since early in GW Bush's first administration, Qaddafi had been reliable in his cooperation with the US anti terrorist operations, pro active in denying terrorist support and access to Libya, and completely compliant in surrendering all his nuclear materials and facilities to GW Bush.
Removing the stability and cooperation of the Qaddafi government in Libya could only benefit radical violent Islam and the rise of the Grand Caliphate in the Middle East and North Africa. Doing so could only be because of unimaginable stupidity or treason against the American people.
Sadly, they are not wrong this time.
“The head of the State Duma International Affairs Committee, A. Pushkov, said the attack on the Russian embassy in Libya is a natural consequence of the West’s ill-considered actions to change the regime. ........”It really surprises us, the Russian side, why the USA condemns the forces in Libya and Mali, the same forces that they are supporting in Syria. Those who are fighting against al-Asad in Syria are representatives of the same circles,” he noted..................”The policy of changing regimes and supporting any opposition, as long as it is against a leader whom the West does not like, leads to such consequences - chaos, loss of control, and diplomats are subjected to threats,” Pushkov added.................”He said that “whatever is said about al-Qadhafi, he did not give extremists the opportunity to act on Libyan territory; he refused Bin-Ladin who asked for refuge in Libya; he cooperated, including with Western special services, in the fight against terrorism.”
All true.
On the one issue of the Middle East and Islamic terrorists, Russia is far more correct than U.S. policy wonks or U.S. policy makers. While we CLAIM to be battling Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, 99% of that terrorism is with persons and organizations that are Sunni Muslim’s, like most so-called U.S. Arab and Muslim friends in the region, not Shia Muslim like Iran, and most of the funding and support for those terrorists comes from the countries of our so-called friends, NOT Iran.
Meanwhile U.S. Middle East foreign policy is the captive of those so-called friends of the U.S. where, in addition to our errors on Middle East terrorism and terrorists we have errroneously been led into taking sides in the religious contest for Islamic leadership in the region between the radical fundamentalists Shia theocrats in Iran and the radical fundamentalists Wahabi-Sunni of Saudi Arabia - a contest in which the west has no dog in that race.
Russis has been more honest about Islamic terrorism because it has that terrorism living and working in the nations in the region just south of Russia’s southern border and because of the influence into Russia’s own Muslims from that area.
I think the notion that Putin is in any way deserved of recognition as a man of peace is an incredibly naive and ignorant thing to say.
Saying Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize at this historic moment is like saying Hitler deserved recognition as a man of peace for not invading neighboring Czechoslovakia after agreeing to the terms as stipulated by the Munich Agreement in negotiations with Great Britain.
Putin's interest has nothing to do with peace and everything to do with the increased status and political power he gained as a result. The preventing of a war was merely happenstance of a power play Putin managed to engineer to his great advantage having elevated himself in a manner in which one day he will cash in his chips on the strength of his new found power and influence in a way that the West will be unable to overcome, diplomatically, politically, militarily.
I wholeheartedly disagree that Putin is in any way deserved of being recognized as a man of peace.
Saying Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize at this historic moment is like saying Hitler deserved recognition as a mann of peace having has any claim managed to accomplish is any way anged to His intervention may have prevented a war but his actions hardly qualify him as a man of peace. The political considerations he undertook in
I have to say they are right.
Russia is indeed right.