(481 Thư của TT Putin gửi dân Mỹ khiến TNS Hoa Kỳ “muốn ói”

Một Thượng Nghị Sĩ Hoa Kỳ nói “muốn ói” khi đọc lá thư của TT Putin

Thượng Nghị Sĩ Bob Menendez của Dân Chủ cho hay: “Tôi đang ăn thì đọc được lá thư này, sau đó tôi thật sự muốn ói”. Chủ Tịch Hạ Viện John Boehner nói: “Tôi cảm thấy bị xúc phạm mạnh”.

Hôm thứ năm 12/9/2013 rất nhiều nhà lập pháp lưỡng đảng của Quốc Hội Hoa Kỳ tỏ ra hết sức phẩn nộ vì giọng điệu quá xấc xược trong lá thư mà TT Nga Putin “gửi nhân dân Hoa Kỳ” được đăng trên báo New York Times.

Thượng Nghị Sĩ Bob Menendez của Dân Chủ cho hay: “Tôi đang ăn thì đọc được lá thư này, sau đó tôi thật sự muốn ói”. Chủ Tịch Hạ Viện John Boehner nói: “Tôi cảm thấy bị xúc phạm mạnh”.

Ông Boehner hôm qua cho hay ông “cảm thấy nghi ngờ thiện chí của Nga qua đề nghị mới nhất của họ về chuyện giải giới kho vũ khí hóa học của Syria và nay sau khi đọc xong lá thư của ông Putin thì ông thấy sự nghị ngờ của ông càng được khẳng định”. Xin đọc bên trang tin Hoa Kỳ và Thế Giới để biết ông Putin đã viết những gì. 

Thượng Nghị Sĩ John McCain thì bảo “lá thư của ông Putin đã sỉ nhục đến trí thông minh của từng người dân Hoa Kỳ”. Với giọng trịch thượng, ông Putin đã đòi chính phủ Mỹ “phải biết kềm chế trong vấn đề Syria”.

Ông Putin nói bóng gió, với ít nhiều ganh tị, đến vai trò của người Mỹ như sau trên trường quốc tế: “Rất là nguy hiểm khi chúng ta khuyến khích một người nào đó cứ tự xem mình là ‘thiên hạ vô địch’, dù động cơ của anh ta ra sao cũng thế”.
Cold war of words: White House fires back at Putin's claim in New York Times op-ed that the U.S. is 'not exceptional' as senator says it 'made him want to vomit'

By David Martosko In Washington and Jessica Jerreat

PUBLISHED: 23:47 EST, 11 September 2013

The White House said Thursday morning that a controversial and standoffish New York Times op-ed by Russian President Vladimir Putin was 'irrelevant,' despite Putin's aggressive digs at President Obama for claiming the United States is 'exceptional.'

'It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation,' the former KGB leader wrote inThe New York Times.

'There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. ... 'We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.'

Putin signed legislation into law this year that bans the public discussion of gay rights. Violators can face fines and those who are not Russian citizens can be deported.

Realistic inconveniences aside, a White House official cautioned that Putin won't be permitted to seize rhetorical advantage of the diplomatic situation while avoiding his newly assumed responsibilities.

'He put this proposal forward and he’s now invested in it,' the official told CNN. That’s good. That’s the best possible reaction. He’s fully invested in Syria’s CW [chemical weapons] disarmament and that’s potentially better than a military strike – which would deter and degrade but wouldn’t get rid of all the chemical weapons.'

'He now owns this. He has fully asserted ownership of it and he needs to deliver.'

On Capitol Hill, reactions to the piece were more candid and visceral.

'I almost wanted to vomit,' said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez in reaction to the passive-aggressive opinion essay.

'I worry when someone who came up through the KGB tells us what is in our national interests, and what is not. It really raises the question of how serious the Russian proposal is.'

That proposal is a bid to rid Syria of its chemical weapons while avoiding military attacks against the Bashar al-Assad regime from the United States.

Putin also won't be doing himself any favors by mangling the meaning of the oft-used political turn of phrase 'American exceptionalism.'

TNS Bob Menendez phản ứng lá thư của TT Putin

Rather than meaning that Americans themselves are special, Alexis de Tocqueville's 1831 coinage expresses the idea that America itself has a unique character based on personal liberty and a history of democratic ideals.

Gallup determined this year through polling that more potential immigrants want to relocate to the United States than to any other country. The United Kingdom came in second, and Russia did not place on Gallup's published list of the most wished-for destinations.

Setting out his case on Syria, Obama had said: 'That's what makes America different. That's what makes us exceptional. With humility, but with resolve, let us never lose sight of that essential truth.'

Putin used his piece to warn the American people that a U.S. strike on Syria could 'unleash a new wave of terrorism'.

He added that the U.S. was viewed across the world as 'relying solely on brute force'.

Putin said a strike in response to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's chemical weapons attack on his own people, would increase violence and bring more instability to the Middle East.

Putin, who has refused to stop Russian arms being delivered to Assad since the start of the civil war, acknowledged the chemical weapons attack, which killed more than 1,400 people took place, but claimed it was the work of rebel forces. 

'No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria,' he said in the New York Times. 'But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.'

While saying the U.S. would be going against the UN if it launched a missile strike against Syria, Putin failed to mention that it was Russia, along with China, that has been one of the biggest obstacles to security council action, according to NBC News.

On Tuesday, Russia blocked a resolution by the U.S, France and Britain to call on Syria to turn over its chemical weapons and threatened UN military enforcement. 

The Russian President's call for calm was ridiculed as propaganda, as politicians and journalists took to Twitter to respond to the piece.

'Putin is playing games. He's playing to Congress, he's playing to the American people.' Piers Morgan Live tweeted. 

 

Solution: Putin and President Obama at the G20 summit. A White House spokesman says Russia has now taken the lead in finding a solution to Syria's chemical weapons