Putin won't co-operate - I wonder WHY?

Tsk Tsk. President Putin, that grotesque violator of human rights and dear friend of every Russkie oligarch, refuses to hand over heroic Edward Snowden to the United States' National Security Gestapo. Now don't misapprehend my sentiment: I'm no fan of "Vlad the Impaler," (google him) Putin, but maybe, just maybe Russia has valid, historically-based reasons to respond in a petulant manner. After all, it was the USA that intervened, at the cost of thousands of Russian lives, in Soviet Russia's circa-1920 Civil War. Naturally, America took the side of the Czarist "White Russians." While true that Franklin Roosevelt finally recognized the existence of the Soviet Union in 1933, that was a bit late in the game. In World War II, that much-beloved-by-Nixon Genocidal General from Dixie, slap-happy George Patton intended to continue thrusting eastward, toward the USSR. In the aftermath of Nazi Germany's May 1945 defeat, Patton knew the "Commies" were our "true and perpetual enemy," and must be eradicated. Did you know that Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay was chomping at the bit during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis to turn Moscow into a pile of glowing embers? Only the relative sanity displayed by Kennedy and Khruschev managed to save Humanity - for a time, anyway. More recently, George W. Bush abrogated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, in order to more "legitimately" install an extremely provocative "Star Wars" type "Missile Defense System" in Poland. And while I don't condone Russia's 2008 bombing of the Georgian capital Tblisi, it didn't help matters diplomatically for the US to actively side against Russia, even going so far as sending US warships into the Black Sea, resulting in a potentially catastrophic confrontation. No, I don't like, nor do I defend the misdeeds of the Russian hierarchy. The "Pussy Riot" women should be released immediately. But Russia does indeed have cause to snub the United States' efforts to seize and punish "Fast Eddie Snowden." Ah, the wily Mr. Snowden, who pretty much only revealed things we American already knew - or at least suspected. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/vladimir-putin-confirms-edward-snowden-is-still-in-moscow-airport-and-blocks-us-extradition-demands-as-venezuela-says-it-would-consider-asylum-request-8672580.html