[elhombrelibre]

Yes, and imagine too if we’d been a totalitarian state like the Soviet Union and we’d killed 60 million people. Imagine too if we’d been a nuclear military threat and had encouraged violent revolution, mass murder (Pol Pot????), subversion throughout the world. But then, it wouldn’t be simple-minded Liberal equivalence then, would it?

[ConservativeJen]

Modern Russia is quite different than the Soviet Union.

They are a lot more free market and have a flat tax:

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed032403.cfm

[ChinaThreat]

I didn’t say you had to like them. With our forces extended in the GWOT,the last thing we need to be doing is agitating a much larger foe who is currently selling oil at $90 a barrel. What purpose does it meet? Especially to prop up muslim fundamentalists. Save your hyperbole for others.