pajamasmedia.com - 3/6/2009
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“SMART” DIPLOMACY (CONT’D):
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations.
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RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Putin. They don’t want to go back to communism, but they don’t want to confront what their elders did in its name, and so they can’t really feel happy with democracy, which is confrontation in almost-primal form. So… find a man willing to take up again the old, old myths, and follow him.
How soon before they call him the Little Father?
Moe Lane
PS: And we’re giving them gussied-up Staples buttons as diplomatic gifts. God save the Mark.
Crossposted to Moe Lane. ...
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