Russian Vice-Premier: Obama’s Mideast Policy Is Like A Monkey With A Hand Grenade

 

 

Russian Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin compared Barack Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East to a "monkey with a hand grenade."

His statement was communicated via Twitter on Tuesday:

Dmitry Rogozin @Rogozin     

Life Запад обращается с исламским миром как обезьяна с гранатой

9:57 AM - 27 Aug 2013

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   The translation via Google is: "West Life refers to the Islamic world as a monkey with a grenade" or as the Telegraph translated it, "The West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade."

Obviously Rogozin isn't afraid of being politically correct, and for that I commend him. I also commend him for that. Many in our society would be totally offended at the phrase he used, but he is right on.

 
Though Rogozin did not elaborate on his comparison, he has previously lambasted alleged plans of "Anglo-Saxons" to attack Syrian government forces.

The Vice-Premier's tweet comes as Russia evacuates its citizens ahead of military strikes. The Telegraph reports:

A Russian emergency situations ministry aircraft carrying aid landed in Syria on Tuesday, and is set to take Russians and other CIS citizens out of the country on its return flight.
The Ilyushin-76 jet landed at the Latakia airport with 20 tons of humanitarian aid, mostly consisting of tinned foods and sugar, a ministry spokeswoman said.
About 180 people who "have expressed a desire to leave Syria", 100 of them Russian, are set to leave on the return flight.
Russia said it had evacuated all of its defence personnel from Syria in June, but a foreign ministry spokesman said at the time that about 30,000 other Russians were still living across the country.

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