Is that diplo-speak for shooting him?

Mikhail Gorbachev slaps that thing on his forehead and says, "Geez, why didn't I think of that?"

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday he supported tough measures taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin and wished he had adopted them.
Gorbachev, whose political reforms led to the collapse of the communist empire, said he should have squashed the challenge from Boris Yeltsin, his arch-rival and subsequently first Russian president, by sending him into diplomatic exile.

(Whaddya think a that block quote, LAGuy?)

LAGuy responds: It's good, but there's too much space between it and the line below.