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Article: PUTIN'S SOUL IS BRUTAL.(Editorial)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2003
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Byline: James Pinkerton
Let's stipulate that President Bush was right last week when he said that the Arab world should democratize.
But let's also stipulate that good words must be embedded in good judgment. And Bush's record so far inspires little confidence that he has the judgment to see where his policies are heading -- such as to see, for example, what's happening to democracy in Russia. There his good friend, Vladimir Putin, is re-Sovietizing the country.
As Bush speaks grandly about the Middle East, he looks blindly at Russia. In September, Freedom House, the human-rights monitor, downgraded Russia to its worst category, "Not Free" -- ...