Not merely mislabeled, but also misplaced it seems:
A nasty spate of anti-Americanism set off by Vladimir V. Putin has grown into waves of attacks aimed at the new American ambassador and Russian opposition leaders, raising questions about the future of U.S.-Russian relations.
The attacks started just before the December parliamentary elections and have intensified as the March 4 presidential vote approaches. Although widely viewed as aimed primarily at a domestic audience, they have grown shriller and more aggressive, provoking debate about whether Russia is deliberately giving a cold shoulder to President Obama’s effort to promote more productive relations.
A main target of the attacks is Michael McFaul, the new ambassador, a longtime democracy advocate and Russia expert who as a top aide to Obama has been an architect of what the White House calls a “reset’’ with Moscow.
The anti-American campaign bears trademark Soviet and KGB thinking, reflecting the mindset of many of the high-level officials appointed by Putin as well as their efforts to protect their power and privileges from the gathering opposition.
Well, at least we humbled ourselves.
It’s the thought that counts.
Well, now, we are trying ceding US territorial claims, surely that will make them like us.
JKB…found a news story showingnthis issue goes back to 2000…..started with the Clinton Adminstration and left unresolved by GW Bush.
IF there was ever a need fora reset button, it would be on the election of 2008.
IF only it were that easy….
The Obama foreign policy team, which includes himself, is made up of imbeciles, communists, America-haters, and appeasers who will try and ingratiate themselves to all our adversaries at the cost of our national defense. Dismantling our military, physically and spiritually, and pouring taxpayers’ treasure into the coffers of campaign supporters and the growing government-dependent far-left voting bloc.
All the while, waging war on the Constitutional liberties of American citizens.
URR, don’t sugarcoat it man, tell us how you really feel.
The open-hand attempt had its uses, regardless of what we might think of the offerer. Now that we’ve filled that square, though, it’s time to use other techniques. In evaluating those other techniques, it also would be useful to recognize, finally, that our enemies do not think like we do.
Mike Rubin has this to say over on Fox News. He was talking about Iran, northern Korea, and the PRC, but it applies to Russia, as well. How Iran sees America
Eric Hines
When will we understand the Russians may not be life-threatening enemies, but they will never be our friends?
Another diplomatic triumph for the lightbringer. Hope is not a strategy, and this is not the change we were promised.
Could it have less to do with the specific imbeciles and more to do with the mimicing of the Muhammad’s meme about weak horses? Sounds like a move aimed at claiming the geopol high ground, before the CHICOM’s do.
The Russkies are the most paranoid bunch on the planet, with considerable reason. Sure, they can be polite, even cultured (if you want to piss one off, call him “nyekulturny”. Roll the R hard. Watch the red begin.), but trusting and simple-minded they are not. It’s a hard land full of hard people.
Obamy’s bunch, on t’other hand…
Obama and Company ARE nyekulturny. Ried and Pelosi live in thier own strange little worlds. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has been advanced far beyond her abilities, but toes the Party line well. We are in the grips of people who believe in thier own infallibility, and in our status as peasants, to be driven in the direction that they see fit.