For Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, might makes right.
Obama spies because he can; Putin invades because he can. They are concrete thinkers for whom the doggerel "Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can" is a self-evident truth.
For Petro Poroshenko, right makes might. Ukraine as a sovereign country has the right to integrate with Europe; what good is a right if it is not exercised?
Mao Zedong had the right and the might to: invade and integrate Taiwan; invade and integrate Hong Kong; shoot down the plane of defector Lin Biao. In none of those cases did Mao act.
I wish that Obama and Putin and Poroshenko had that wee bit of Mao Zedong in them. A right need not be exercised to be recognized; might need not be demonstrated to be acknowledged and a dog doesn't have to lick his balls because he can.
Obama spies because he can; Putin invades because he can. They are concrete thinkers for whom the doggerel "Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can" is a self-evident truth.
For Petro Poroshenko, right makes might. Ukraine as a sovereign country has the right to integrate with Europe; what good is a right if it is not exercised?
Mao Zedong had the right and the might to: invade and integrate Taiwan; invade and integrate Hong Kong; shoot down the plane of defector Lin Biao. In none of those cases did Mao act.
I wish that Obama and Putin and Poroshenko had that wee bit of Mao Zedong in them. A right need not be exercised to be recognized; might need not be demonstrated to be acknowledged and a dog doesn't have to lick his balls because he can.
