Senator
McCain has a different point of view about Russian leader Vladimir
Putin and ISIS. He feels that Mr. Putin is a greater threat than ISIS
and is nervous about back-channel communication with Moscow. May one
infer that he believes it safer to build back-channel commo links
with ISIS?
ISIS
and Islam are direct threats to the American way of life and seek to
increase by cutting off heads, establishing Islamic law and
occasionally blowing up tall office buildings with Americans in them
when the opportunity arises. ISIS is seeking recruits, Russia isn't
doing any of that sort of thing so far as I know, yet what do I know
in comparison to Washington insiders? Maybe a Russian adviser
tortured John McCain in Hanoi as in that Rambo movie and he dreams;
'I'm coming for you Vlad.'
Ukraine was Russia for half a millennium before Columbus discovered some friendlies and hostiles in America. Crimea was part of Russia longer than the United States has existed. It isn't reasonable to equate Russia with ISIS so far as invasion go. Nor would it be reasonable to compare U.S. occupation of Vietnam with Russian occupation of Crimea. General Westmoreland was trying to defeat communist expansion, yet the U.S. had never had Vietnam as a state or even trust territory at the time.
It would seem as if increasing communication with President Putin by the American President is a good thing, as would increasing business, trade, tourism and environmental mediation cooperative ventures. With ISIS alternatively, less is probably better.
The
opinions of people in D.C. can be somewhat mind-boggling.
