[quote]U.S. Senator John McCain will submit an opinion piece to the Russian newspaper Pravda in response to an op-ed on Syria in The New York Times by Russian President Vladimir Putin that infuriated many members of Congress, a spokesman said on Friday.[/quote]
[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/13/us-syria-crisis-putin-mccain-idUSBRE98C0YD20130913]Source(Reuters)[/url]
Obama should be doing this.
It's funny because Pravda means truth in Russian
[quote]Russian President Vladimir Putin's op-ed in The New York Times has accomplished something that's hard to do these days: Bring Congress together.
[B]Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was succinct in a Thursday morning post on Twitter, calling the Putin column an "insult" to Americans[/B]. Across the political aisle, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez said he practically tossed his dinner.
"[B]I almost wanted to vomit[/B]," Menendez, D-N.J., told CNN. "I worry when someone who came up through the KGB tells us what is in our national interests, and what is not. It really raises the question of how serious the Russian proposal is."
Over in the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was "insulted" by the Putin column.
Putin writes that he believes a U.S. airstrike on Syria could possibly "increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism." At the end, he took issue with President Obama's remarks Tuesday night about American exceptionalism.[/quote]
I don't understand why everyone's freaking out. What he wrote isn't half-bad, and he isn't alone in advocating selfish interests.
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