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Photo of the Day: President Obama Meets With Advisers in Situation Room on Ukraine

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Rightwingconspirator3/04/2014 9:50:26 am PST

re: #643 iossarian

It’s also preposterous to imagine that if Russia elected a slightly-more-reasonable leader than Putin in the next few years, anyone in the US would suddenly regard him as someone with the moral authority to criticize US foreign policy.

Not necessarily so. Depends on his or her actions and policies. Getting behind this “Russia and Ukraine is just like Bush and Iraq” thing is both a load of crap, and a deliberate weapon of choice of our enemies and opponents out there. How hard do we want to back that attitude? How hard do we want to insist they are right about that?

I’d say not at all. The differences are vast and undeniable. Every US policy need not begin with a GW Bush mea culpa for eternity.