THE TOP MAN SPEAKS - AT 6:39 P.M. ET:  Putin is the guy to see in Russia, not those other guys with Russian names.  And Putin spoke today, but not to our secretary of state.  The great Ed Lasky of American Thinker refers us to this:

BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was "premature".

Putin, who many diplomats, analysts, and Russian citizens believe is still Russia's paramount leader despite stepping down as president last year, was speaking after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Moscow for two days of talks.

"There is no need to frighten the Iranians," Putin told reporters in Beijing after a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Hillary has been in Moscow, no doubt enjoying the sights, but nothing else:

Clinton failed to secure any specific assurances from Russia on Iran during her visit, leaving her open to criticism at home that she had not received anything from Moscow after earlier U.S. concessions on missile defence.

You think?  The left wing of her party probably believes she didn't make enough concessions.

And get this.

Clinton said she would have liked to have seen Putin but that their agendas did not coincide.

Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.  The secretary of state, and former first lady, gets snubbed by an old KGB guy after we withdraw missile defense from Eastern Europe, as a gesture toward the Russians.

Shows you what a little appeasement can get.

Obama, and messenger girl Clinton, will not bring us peace in our time, any more than the British chap did in 1938.

October 14, 2009