Do you agree with Putin's critique of US power?

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: Do you agree with Putin's critique of US power?

The world, <Putin> said, is now unipolar: “One single center of power. One single center of force. One single center of decision making. This is the world of one master, one sovereign.”

With the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the American defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, and a Congressional delegation sitting stone-faced, Mr. Putin warned that the power amassed by any nation that assumes this ultimate global role “destroys it from within.

“It has nothing in common with democracy, of course,” he added. “Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations — military force.”

“Primarily the United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area,” said Mr. Putin, who increasingly has tried to re-establish Russia’s once broad Soviet-era influence, using Russia’s natural resources as leverage and defending nations at odds with the United States, including Iran.

American military actions, which he termed “unilateral” and “illegitimate,” also “have not been able to resolve any matters at all,” and, he said, have created only more instability and danger.

“They bring us to the abyss of one conflict after another,” he said. “Political solutions are becoming impossible.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/world/europe/11munich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Benhurst]

1. How would I dare disagree with anything said by a man

The Leader, himself, says has a beautiful soul?

[Ezlivin]

2. I'm sorry to say this, but we deserve what we got coming

I know that most people on DU are not "guilty" in any sense. But these are our "elected" leaders and they undertook these actions in our name so we'll be held culpable as accessories to the crime(s).

If we can't stop our Glorious Leader from involving us in Iran, who's to blame?

Oh wait a second, there's a newsflash about Anna Nicole Smith or the astronaut or James Brown or....

[BurtWorm]

3. I hope those who vote No will tell us what in Putin's message they disagree with.

I am genuinely interested in their views.

[Bitwit1234]

4. What I disagree with is

It is not the people of the United States that want to conquer the world it is the republics with the monster called bush at their head.

[BurtWorm]

5. kick