Adodgy and demanding ally, but per-haps a necessary one. That is what America sees as Russia leaps to embrace the global anti-terrorist cause. There is no doubting the Kremlin's enthusiasm, on the surface at least. President Vladimir Putin compared the perpetrators of the onslaught against America to Nazis—still the harshest term in Russia's political lexicon. "We face a common foe," he said.
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