PUTIN & AMERICAN LIBERALS

Putin was criticized by liberals for his recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, but he was really saying what American liberals have been saying about American exceptionalism for decades.  What Obama was considering doing in Syria violated all of the principles of American liberalism.

There is an unspoken sub-text at play here: what President Putin said in his column is pretty much what American liberals and leftists have been saying about the United States since the 1960s. From the standpoint of American liberals, there is nothing the least bit new or controversial in anything Mr. Putin wrote in his column. He is merely hoisting President Obama and his liberal friends by their own ideological petard.

Andrew Klavan's view.