Boris Badenov Does It Again

Jed Babbin's got it exactly right.

Repeat after me, kids---Vladimir Putin is NOT our ally:

CAN ANYONE BELIEVE IT a coincidence that while Putin is allying Russia with both Iran and Syria, those two nations are more or less formalizing the Axis of Evil? Last February, Iranian veep Mohammad Reza Aref said Iran and Syria were forming a "common front." He said, "We are ready to help Syria on all grounds to confront threats." Syria's principal threats are Israel and America, and so they will remain as long as Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism. That the two terrorist states are allying more formally, with Russia playing the third-party co-conspirator, should send chills up every spine in western Europe. The last time this happened, Stalin was signing up to play second violin to Hitler.

While this is going on, Putin is also offering to train "security services" among the Palestinians and selling them helicopters and communications equipment. Unmentioned in Putin's trip to Israel last week were the armored personnel carriers he was also offering the Palestinians. It seems Mr. Bush's pal is eagerly seeking to restore Russian influence in the Middle East, but not in the interests of countering terrorism: only countering America.

In addition to the ongoing support for our enemies in the Middle East, who, despite the lunatic claims of the Left, are firing Soviet-made weapons at our troops, not American ones, Putin has recently tried to assassinate the man who eventually became president of Ukraine, has interfered in the politics of Georgia and Kurgistan, and has extolled the virtues of the former Soviet Empire.

The storm clouds gather. Are we prepared for the rain to come?