WCH, please explain how Putin has been "out of control" on the world stage?  In fail to see where Putin has been engaging in foreign adventurism much at all, certainly FAR less than the USA has been under both Shrub and Chimp.

Anyway, your argument, such as it is, is specious and illogical --- "if THEY can do it, we can do it too!", is what it amounts to.  I certainly castigated and condemned the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld cabal for the indefensible invasion of Iraq as much, and probably more, than I have and am condemned Hillary --- but that is mainly just because she has not been president (yet), and in a position to fully follow through on all her needlessly belligerent and bellicose warmongering.