Non-Sense

Thru Sonny, Jamie Kirchick reminds me why Bush’s infamous size-up of Putin was such a load of bollocks:

I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul.

I suppose it’s fair enough that nobody, not even the President of the United States, can get someone’s actual soul just by looking them in the eye. But this all goes to show, now more than ever, why if you can only get a sense of a thing, instead of the thing itself, you just as often shouldn’t waste your time…and ours.

On a separate note, calling Putin a ‘thug’ is somewhat similar to calling Arnold Schwarzenegger a bodybuilder. Now, commandeering American Hummers? Total Russothuggery.