PUTIN ECHOES GORBACHEV AND BLAMES GEORGIA AND THE USA

RUSSIA BLAMING GEORGIA IS LIKE A WIFE-BEATER BLAMING HIS WIFE.

DESPITE THIS LEFTIES SEEM TO BE GRAVITATING TOWARD THE RUSSIAN POSITION AND.... BLAMING BUSH...

THE NYTIMES PUBLISHED AN OP-ED BY FAILED COMMUNIST DICTATOR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IN WHICH HE BLAMED THE USA, NATO AND GEORGIA; EXCERPT:

-- "Russia was dragged into the fray by the recklessness of the Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili. He would not have dared to attack without outside support."

-- "What is clear is that the Western assistance in training Georgian troops and massive shipments of arms had been pushing the region toward war rather than peace."

-- "I suggest one thing that should definitely be reconsidered: the habit of talking to Russia in a condescending way, without regard for its positions and interests."

LEFTIE ACQUAINTANCES OF MINE HAVE EMBRACED THIS VIEW.

• NO SURPRISE HERE:
• THEY ARE STILL THE BLAME AMERICA FIRST CROWD.
• MORE SO NOW THAN EVER: OBAMA'S NOMINATION SEALS THE DEAL:
• MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, THEY ARE NO THE SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRAT PARTY.

EVEN WHEN PUTIN STATES THE SAME THING, THEY'D STILL RATHER BLAME BUSH.

AS IF OBAMA CHATTING WITH PUTIN WOULD GET A BETTER RESULT.

I got into an argument with one of these lefties, and it once again revealed to me how utterly irrational the left is:

This leftie is more frightened and angry at Bush - for his imaginary assault on our liberties - then they are of Putin.

AND::: They admire Gorbachev despite the fact that he never ever did one single solitary thing which expanded human rights in Russia. Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost were attempts TO SAVE COMMUNISM. They were not attempts at creating a capitalist/freemarket democracy.

Gorbachev's policies - like Putin's - were all about tyranny and domination of the state, and not liberty.

Bush is all about liberty.

The fact that the left denies this prevents them from being able to provide REAL leadership and solve the real problems in the world. That's because to improve the problems you have to first correctly see them for what they really are.

Only then can you come up with the practical solutions which will bring us closer to achieving our common goals.

This willful blindness is what makes the left useless - at best, and a negative drag since they are constantly reunning interference foe the enemy and protecting archaic and vestigial institutions - like SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE BAN ON DRILLING INTHE OCS AND ANWR.

This is why - in order to defeat the global jihadist threat and solve our energy needs and elimiante poverty - we need to first defeat leftism.