Regarding our community activist’s present imbroglio with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, I stand with Donald Trump who said recently: “The thing I have the most concern about is that he’s being so lambasted for not being respected, and for being a joke, that he’ll do something really stupid to show that he’s a man.”
We are now about where we were with President Carter after he lectured his fellow citizens about their so-called “inordinate fear of communism” even as the Soviet Union was spreading its tentacles over the Third World. His sudden turnaround — caused by Soviet aggression in Afghanistan — from a position of sweet reason to the pose of a hawk alarmed me and doubtless alarmed the Russians. Carter began the military build-up that a more gifted statesman, President Reagan, consummated in pursuit of a peaceful ending of the Cold War. Yet while Carter resided in the White House, I was uneasy with the sudden anti-communism of this moralistic twerp. Most probably Trump was, too. Now we have to worry about the intolerable greenhorn, President Obama. What will he do next?
