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Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin
• http://original.antiwar.com,by Patrick J. BuchananOur foreign policy elite's answer appears to be a thunderous no.
Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia.
During the campaign Trump was clear. He would seek closer ties with Russia and cooperate with Vladimir Putin in smashing al-Qaida and ISIS terrorists in Syria, and leave Putin's ally Bashar Assad alone.
With this diplomatic deal in mind, President Trump has resisted efforts to get him to call Putin a "thug" or a "murderer."
Asked during his taped Super Bowl interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly whether he respected Putin, Trump said that, as a leader, yes.
O'Reilly pressed, "But he's a killer, though. Putin's a killer."