Boris to Bill: Butt Out

摘要

Bill clinton tried conjuring up the Boris Yeltsin of old last week, the one who eight years ago stood defiantly on a tank and saved Russia's fledgling democracy. "One of the most thrilling experiences of my life, as a citizen of the world, was when you stood up on the tank in Moscow," Clinton told Yeltsin, at an Istanbul summit of 54 nations. "If they had put you in jail instead of electing you president, I would have hoped that every leader of every country around this table would have stood up for you and not said, 'Well, that is an internal Russian affair'." The point to all this tear-jerking rhetoric: Russia, thinks Clinton, should heed U.S. objections to Yeltsin's nasty war in the breakaway region of Chechnya.