Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy, and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time."
I was reminded by our friend Victor of an off the record quotation attributed to Vladimir Putin regarding Obama;
"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon…. the pigeon knocks over all the pieces, poops on the board and then struts around like it won the game."
