Former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin told the audience at the Raleigh Spy Conference (which I founded) in 2003 that Putin is a dangerous man and not to be trusted. Obama is a dorm room socialist who prefers platitudes over coherent foreign policy. Now the two have clashed in the New York Times in an op-ed piece by Putin designed to bypass official channels and orchestrate public policy in the US. Putin is able to achieve this unprecedented diplomatic coup because he, like everyone else, can see Obama is incompetent and irresolute. The US appears to be infantile and ineffective under his presidency. And worse, who do we shove up to present the opposition view? John McCain, hardly the sharpest knife in the foreign policy drawer. Now we are in a power play with our old adversary who was part of a regime that committed atrocities on a level never before experienced in human history.  And he is telling Americans, in our allegedly national newspaper that we are not...(Read Full Post)