Bush, our global village idiot, was on the world stage again this weekend. He entertained the president of Russia, Vladimir (Vlad the Paler) Putin at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport. Remember how at their first meeting W claimed to have seen into Putin's soul? Bush said "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialog. I was able to get a sense of his soul". Then their relationship soured, not surprising given their job pressures and the geographic challenge. And mutual accusations of dalliances with fascists or neoimperialists can be so hurtful if taken personally.
Now they seem to have rekindled the spark. We know that the dauphin W (the infant) can be temperamental, perhaps even fickle. At least we can be reasonably confident that with adult supervision of his dad and chaperon, King George the 41st, W's penchant for looking deep into Putin's eyes and soul won't get out of hand. Not that there would be anything wrong with consenting adults baring their... souls. They can play together fishing and speedboating around, then the former head of the KGB can return to his fiefdom secure in the knowledge that the world's only remaining superpower really is run by a fool. Maybe he can save the trip and just pull petals off a flower, pondering whether W loves me, he loves me not...
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In a newspaper article entitled, "Bush praises Putin; scholars stumped," it states that many people are baffled about this "friendship" between the two. The article quotes Michael McFaul, an expert on Russia at Stanford University, who said "...Putin threatens the United States as if we were Nazi Germany....But suddenly we're buddies riding in the boat...I don't get it." In a further comment, however, McFaul unknowingly presents the answer to his own puzzlement when he says, "Putin has probably rolled back democracy further than any other world leader during [the past 7 years]." Just replace "Putin" with "Bush" and it becomes sparklingly clear why the two are such kindred spirits.
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