Wow! Ray McGovern roasts the Obama Administration, but good!...

[BeyondGeography]

3. Wow, what a worthless piece of "analysis"

We almost get somewhere at the very end, but McGovern's hopeless partisanship gets the better of him:

Scholars of Russian history make an important point that is relevant here: it is Russia’s deeply embedded inferiority complex vis-à-vis the West. Recite to Vladimir Putin the familiar adage, “Scratch the Russian and find the Tatar,” and see what happens.

In short, while Europe was coming out of the Dark Ages into the Renaissance, the Russians were for more than two centuries under the likes of Genghis Khan and his hordes – a period the Russians call the “Tatar Yoke.” This reality had very serious consequences and is deeply embedded in the Russian consciousness. In a sense, the Russians have been playing catch-up ball ever since.

Their struggle seems never ending, but now and again they reach high ground. L’Affaire Snowden is one of those “nows.” Russia occupies the high moral ground, helped immeasurably by the behavior of the Bush and Obama administrations, which have squandered the moral advantage the U.S. used to enjoy.

Sorry, Ray. But Snowden's incoherent flight from tyranny into the arms of a whacked-out, dictatorial homophobe only gives Russia the high ground in the eyes of people like you who are aiming hopelessly low.