You know, I never did hear a fairly obvious observation when Vladimir Putin came for a visit with the Bushes, our current president and his parents, last week.<\/p>\n
It is a meeting of the CIA and the KGB.<\/p>\n
And there is something akin to post Civil War get-togethers with Union and Confederate generals, something that some cynical figures (Frederick Douglas) looked askew at and saw something amiss.<\/p>\n
Oh, sure, George Wallace Bush was there too. But he would be the equivalent of the child who just graduated from the kids’ card-table and now has the opportunity to listen in to the grown-ups…<\/p>\n
… the KGB and the CIA.<\/p>\n
Actually, for an interesting observation of American standing in the world and what it is motivated to do. During his presidency, Jimmy Carter visited Poland, talked with Polish leaders, and then made the cursory press conference where his words on wanting to “learn about the Poles’ desire for freedom” was misinterpreted to wanting to learn about their “Carnal Lust”.\u00c2\u00a0 Bush can’t even really attempt that soft-sell of demanding to learn about the peoples of different nations’ carnal lust these days.\u00c2\u00a0 The Chinese included, the Russians included. Too many market openings.\u00c2\u00a0 (Meanwhile, we do the Hard Sell to learn about people’s Carnal Lust in, say, Iraq.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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