President Cancels Putin Summit

In Tuesday's post I told you about the letter from NYC's elected LGBT officials letter to the President requesting he cancel the upcoming summit with Petit Czar Putin due to his egregious support of a rabidly anti-Gay agenda that has engendered state sanctioned persecution and violence against all things Gay in Russia.  To be sure, theirs were not the only voices raised, however, the President has taken all those voices into consideration and has canceled the upcoming summit with Putin during the G8 Conference in September.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney released the following statement in regards to this action:

"Following a careful review begun in July, we have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a U.S.-Russia Summit in early September.  We value the achievements made with Russia in the President’s first term, including the New START Treaty, and cooperation on Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea.  However, given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, and human rights and civil society in the last twelve months, we have informed the Russian Government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda.  Russia’s disappointing decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum was also a factor that we considered in assessing the current state of our bilateral relationship. Our cooperation on these issues remains a priority for the United States, so on Friday, August 9, Secretaries Hagel and Kerry will meet with their Russian counterparts in a 2+2 format in Washington to discuss how we can best make progress moving forward on the full range of issues in our bilateral relationship."

Maybe there is still hope we can drag Russia into the 21st Century before it implodes from the sheer stupidity of its governmental actions personified in the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler that is Petit Czar Putin.  But don't hold your breath....

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