24 August 2008

well, heck

[click image, Putin arriving in southern North Ossetia, 9 August....]

This piece is poorly written, and not crisply conceived... rambling... outright boring in parts, but she damn well manages to spit it out about a lot of Putin's better qualities. So it's definitely worth a skim.

I just looked at some pictures of him visiting the wounded and had to laugh because the patients all looked mortified by the photographer, but somehow at ease about Putin... I'd think one wouldn't have the presence to be mortified by the photographer with the dreaded dictator standing there. None of those shots seemed to work very well for n e u f n e u f, but this one came close enough.

He's just debarked from the plane very near the action to chair a meeting about the crisis in South Ossetia... the day after the Georgian attack. He had been sitting with * at the Olympics when the attack came, and there were angry words. Inside a day he was on the ground with Russian troops and South Ossetian refugees. Would you mind juxtaposing this with the visage of * in the "Mission Accomplished" gig just off San Diego in 2003? Don't you want to?

I guess what I want to know is: Does he look like he wanted this shit?

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