Aug 08, 2013 20:33
Acting as if the president of a nuclear-armed major world power that happens to be the largest country in the world can be treated the same as the Prime Minister of Fiji, President Obama has decided to cancel a summit with Vladimir Putin because Russia would not comply with demands to hand over Edward Snowden. Then he added a finger-wagging lecture to boot. If there's anything worse than a bully, it's a passive-aggressive bully that pouts when he doesn't get his way.
Then again, I suppose giving Putin the silent treatment is fitting in a way, since being silent seems to be the only way to avoid NSA eavesdropping.
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