Sunday, February 11, 2007
Nonsense From a Mouthpiece of the Old Order
Vladimir Putin is mouthing off again. Taking advantage of a trendy hatred and resentment of America and milking it to his advantage (PR for dictators).
Will Russia ever be anything but a cauldron of resentment, and obedience to authoritarian demagogues?
...No.
China and a host of countries in a similar condition of post-totalitarian awakening certainly have a good chance of becoming successful, open, and free societies. Russia will always be a different story. This is a country where good portions of the citizens think that Joseph Stalin was a great man (be consistent, why not Hitler too?).
Sorry for some lack of professionalism in writing on my part, but Putin and his entire country will never extricate themselves from the political prison they so adore.
To complain of America's role in the world is certainly easy for those who have always despised success and dynamism. Coming from Putin and the rag tag remnants of a Soviet empire is laughable.
In a time when the entire world must risk the violence and oppression of Muslim jihad we still have the old clowns of socialist authoritarianism poking at the very existence of decent and dynamic free society.
Could jealousy be any more transparent than when the seven decade long gulag still complains of the American achievement?
