David Adesnik at Oxblog neatly sums up why we shouldn’t let our sympathy with the Russian people turn into anything other than contempt for their corrupt, despotic, incompetent leader.

Highlight: "Imagine our response in the United States if Al Qaeda continued to launch attack after attack while the Bush administration did nothing more than shut down the New York Times and CBS. That is the only way to understand what Putin has done". But go read it all.