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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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Obama’s abdication
Saturday, March 1, 2014
By: Herald Staff

This is what happens when you draw red lines that mean nothing.

This is what happens when the man who should be Leader of the Free World abdicates that position.

This is what happens when thugs like Vladimir Putin are allowed free rein to bully in territory he still considers part of Mother Russia.

After days of doing little more than watching from afar, the president walked into the White House briefing room yesterday to declare that he was “deeply concerned” about yesterday’s developments in Ukraine.

Those developments included the landing of possibly a dozen Russian transport planes and helicopters and reports that Russian forces had seized Crimea’s main airport even as a new government struggles in Kiev.

Obama warned — quite possibly too late as usual — that “any violation of Ukrainian sovereignty would be deeply destabilizing.

“It would present a profound interference in matters that must be decided by the Ukrainian people,” he said.

Our naive and ineffectual president has a way of capturing the essence of the problem even as the wily Putin steals his lunch money.

“The United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine,” Obama said.

That ought to have Putin trembling in his boots.

bostonherald.com
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