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+Title: Self-appointed leaders of the Free World
+Tags: english
+Date: 2018-03-22 11:00
+
+<p>The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
+re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
+am though a little fascinated by comment from USA senator John McCain,
+<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people">sited
+by The Hill and others</a>:
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"An American president does not lead the Free World by
+congratulating dictators on winning sham elections."</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
+phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
+have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">kidnapped a
+completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
+Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
+sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year</a>.</p>
+
+<p>USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
+one taken by any Free World.</p>