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Hogwash, moniker
For Bush to deliver a lecture to Putin on American style tennants is ridiculous and ill-timed. Setting about finishing some Clinton era arms agreements, and limiting the spread of AK-47's and shoulder rockets should be the talk of the day. Bush's little lecture constitued nothing more than the furtherance of a PR startegy hammered out towards the end of his 1st term. It's plain disrespectful, insulting, and brazen. Even Reagan stepped back from scenes like this, resorting to speeches to dispense his freedom rhetoric, ie "tear down this wall" etc. Accordingly, this mirrors our relationship with China how? We allow them to hold currency and pound us with the yen, with no response, but we'll pay lip service to "human rights abuses", spare me. I think a relationship with the Russians at this point needs to be managed with more caution. It's not about if they like us or not, but pick your battles. IF the US gets on its high horse we risk loosing the ablity to solidfy ongoing non-proliferatinon agreements, to jeapordize this right now, is plain stupidity, to think that giving US style freedom to regular Russians is the key to security is foolish. Working with the leadership is far more important than a stupid speech on American civics. This was just another way for Bush to stick to his guns, appease Republican critics in the US Senate, and further the rhetoric mentioned in his innagural speech.
-Walrus
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