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Putin vs. Hillary Feud

Mike

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Yes, just the way a potential U.S. President should start to make the world respect us?

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February 15, 2008
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Putin vs. Clinton


When Hillary Clinton said, way back in New Hampshire, that Vladimir Putin "doesn't have a soul," I figured that would be the sort of thing the Russian wouldn't be pleased about. But when I called the foreign ministry the next day for comment, it was Orthodox Christmas, and I let it slide.

He was asked about the remark at his press conference yesterday, however, and indeed wasn't pleased.

The former KGB lieutenant colonel appeared to lash out at U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton — a leading Democratic candidate for president — when one reporter quoted her as saying that former KGB officers have no soul:

"At a minimum, a head of state should have a head," Putin said.
 
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John McCain, 71, United States Senator

John McCain, started his campaign by hoping to be the Republican consensus candidate. This is reflected by his choice of foreign policy advisors, who include traditional realists like former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Lawrence Eagleburger, as well as neo-conservative idealists like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol. Many of his ideas are outlined in an essay published in the November/December 2007 edition of Foreign Affairs.

McCain has staked his primary campaign on supporting the troop surge in Iraq; indeed, he is US Senate’s biggest supporter of Bush’s escalation there. He also says he expects more cooperation from Europeans. “As we’ve been a good friend to other countries in moments of shared perils, so we have good reason to expect their solidarity with us in this struggle,” McCain has said.

McCain takes a solidly neo-conservative position on rogue states like Iran, Syria and North Korea—countries that try to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. “I’d institute a policy that I call ‘rogue state rollback.’ I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments,” McCain says.

McCain has signaled that he would take a much harder line vis-à-vis Russia. Bush said after his initial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001 that he had looked into his eyes “and I was able to get a sense of his soul.” But McCain recently said that when he himself looked into Putin’s eyes, he “saw three things: a K and a G and a B.” Putin had been a KGB agent in the Soviet years.

On the issue of missile defense, McCain has said that the objections of Putin are not an obstacle to deploying a system, but rather a justification of it. This is a dangerous person, and he has to understand that there’s a cost to some of his actions,” McCain has said. “And the first thing I would do is make sure that we have a missile defense system in place” in Poland and the Czech Republic.
 

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