10/22/2011
From Bloomberg News:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other "dictators" should feel nervous after the death of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, U.S. Senator John McCain said.
"I think dictators all over the world, including Bashar al-Assad, maybe even Mr. Putin, maybe some Chinese, maybe all of them, may be a little bit more nervous," McCain said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. late yesterday. "It’s the spring, not just the Arab spring."
Maybe McCain really believes that Gadafi’s demise was the result of the spontaneous uprising of democracy-loving Libyan citizens and that, in the big picture of things, the NATO death-from-above airstrike that blasted his escape convoy didn’t have anything to do with Kaffaffee’s lynching a few hours later. But Vladimir Putin didn’t get where he is by being that deluded.
Putin is a bad man. I don’t like him. But, when senior American politicians start issuing vague threats against Putin’s life, allow me to point out pictorially a difference between Qazzafi and Putin. Above you see the kind of hardware that the Colonel had going for him: a statue of a giant fist crushing an American fighter-bomber. Below is a picture of the kind of hardware Putin has going for him:
Putin has about a dozen active boomers: nuclear powered submarines carrying nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. (Most of them not Hunt for Red October-style Typhoon Class like this leviathan, but still … ) As a general rule of diplomacy, it’s a good idea to restrict making personal death threats to only those national leaders without boomers.
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