are not comfortable with some of the defense operations we want to deploy for our friends in eastern europe. and then you look at the fact that syria is deploying missile defense technology to syria, and, ralph, you know, it looks like we re getting walked all over in that venue as well. sure. because, again, putin will live up to what he says. if we destroy syrian military technology, putin will replace it. let me put the relationship in an everyday perspective for you. putin is a classic sadistic schoolyard bully, and obama s the geeky kid with the thick glasses and the armful of books. and putin enjoys beating on obama, and obama will always give up the lunch money, always. but let me there s a very, very short poem by a.e. houseman that just nails this. the russian bear is huge and wild, it has devoured the infant child. the infant child is not aware it