Saturday, February 10, 2007
Putin The Boot In.
"People are always teaching us
democracy
but the people who teach us
democracy don't want to learn it themselves."
Russian president Vladimir Putin, speaking to security and defence officials in Munich, Germany, has launched an outspoken attack on the US for attempting to force its will on the rest of the world.
He criticized the United States for what he said was its "almost uncontained" use of force around the world.
"What is a unipolar world? No matter how we beautify this term it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master."
Putin said that the US, above other western nations, had repeatedly overstepped its national borders in questions of international security, a policy that he said had not made the world safer.
On the contrary, the world had become less safe, he said.
"It has nothing in common with democracy because that is the opinion of the majority taking into account the minority opinion."
German chancellor Angela Merkel, who had just told the delegates that the international community was determined to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons, sat glum-faced, as did other Western leaders, when Putin had finished.
Truth hurts!
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Labels: America, Iraq, Politics, War
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At least if the cold war kicked off again, we might get a smidgeon of value for money for the Trident outlay, which looks inevitable, before the buggers have even debated or voted for it.
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