August 11, 2008 6:14 PM
The Double Sputnik of 2008: An End to Illusions
With apologies to George W. Bush, I don’t think our President looked very clearly into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and saw the alleged goodness of his soul. I think Putin was wearing his KGB happyface when the two men first met in 2001, and Bush fell for it.
With apologies to Al Gore, I don’t think the Russian invasion of nearby Georgia will be “carbon neutral.” I don’t think the Russians give a kopeck about our precious global warming concerns, and to the extent they might believe that global warming is a real phenomenon, they are all for it: Who wouldn’t want to warm up Siberia and turn the Russian Arctic into a blue-water coastline?
