Вот ни капельки не сомневаюсь

alternet.org -- Today’s right-wing fetish about the Constitution’s perfection ignores input by prominent Virginians and Carolinians, including many signers of the Declaration of Independence, to protect slave property. As their book points out, the gun-toting militias sanctioned by the Second Amendment were a guarantee that slave owners could hunt and kill escaped slaves and Native Americans. The Sublettes stunningly trace how fear (of slave revolts) and self-interest (protecting slave-tied wealth) played a major role in framing America’s founding documents.

Кстати, this

The Week: "Putin isn't humiliating Obama in Syria. He's doing the U.S. a favor"
Не могу не процитировать: "Boot concluded that we're in the midst of "the most confused or dispiriting moment in American foreign policy since the 1970s." To which Kristol responded by proclaiming in a tweet of his own that it's "actually worse than the '70s." Worse than the '70s? For the neocons, that's as bad as it gets."

Zero hedge: "Obama Weighs "Syria Retreat" As White House Ends Training Of Moderate Rebels"

Путин с Лавровым спокойно могли бы всё это говорить от своего имени (но строго без малейшей отсебятины) и выигрывать идеологические битвы всухую. Но, видимо, тогда бы это не были Путин с Лавровым.