When You Wish Upon a Czar

Time Magazine has named its 2007 Person of the Year. Ths year, the editorial staff has decided that the person worth honoring with its award is not a General whose brilliant strategy has crushed Islamists at every turn and has changed the course of a nation, if not a region, or even the Coming Messiah who will save us from our evil consuming wasteful ways.

Nope, this year’s award goes to Vladimir Putin, Totalitarian whose motto “order before democracy” is getting a lot of use in Russia these days. If he’s not having journalists killed, he’s having BBC reporters attacked, destroying potential political rivals using his own courts, or throwing a major political rival into an asylum.

Time calls him “…not a boy scout” and “…not a democrat in any way that the West would define it”. That is a rather stunning understatement. He’s not a democrat in any way that a dictionary would define it. He is a bully who has failed to capitalize on the opportunities he’s had to make his country prosperous and safe and has fallen back on his experience as an enabler of perhaps the most deadly regime in the history of the world.

Perhaps Time would have been better off making that point abundantly clear instead of mincing about with the weasel words.

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