Are American crews safe on Soyus??

From Denver post

Bolden got his first up-close look at the full-scale Orion test vehicle at Lockheed Martin Space Systems' Waterton Canyon facility in Jefferson County, where the gumdrop-shaped crew capsule and launch-abort system have been undergoing engineering tests.
 
The visit, which also included a tour of Lockheed's planetary missions for NASA, will be helpful "when I go to Congress and the Aerospace Advisory Council" and he can attest to the vehicle's durability, Bolden said. "I'm feeling comfortable about keeping my crew safe."
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Russian space vehicles are now the only way to get humans into orbit.
 
The Russian program suffered five failures last year – rockets crashed on take-off or couldn’t get their payloads into the right orbit.
 
All the failures involved cargo only, so no one was hurt.
 
“We should never fool ourselves that going into space is an easy thing and without risk.”
 
But Acaba says he’s satisfied with the investigations that took place, and that over all, the Russian vehicles have been very reliable. 
 
“So I feel really good riding on one, and I’m also very fortunate to fly with one of the most experience cosmonauts on the planet. He’s very well trained and if we do experience any kind of problems, I feel confident as a crew that we can deal with that and get back safety.”
 
Ed note--read the NASA paper on comparison USA vs Russian manned rating. Want to compara the design, mfg. And test process? You can't get the Russian data. Based on the Russian history
, are you comfortable ? Amazing how you loose confidence in shuttle, gain confidence in untested Orion, and have confidence in the Russian program with no data as ASAP chairman Dyer has stated. Look at the minutes of the ASAP.
I hope the astronaut is right on Russian safety. Saying it does not make it so. Kinda like relying in hope over experience---re: NASA plan puts America at risk.


Keeptheshuttleflying.com comment:

All Americans are concerned about keeping American crews safe.  By canceling the shuttle and refusing to seriously consider any extension, are crews in danger?   Look at the NASA analysis of the Soyus, the ASAP evaluation of the Soyus.  Details on a popular former SPM's blog.  All you space writers, why don't you write about this, considering the recent history of Russian hardware failures.

ARE OUR CREWS SAFE?? By canceling shuttle has the NASA chief put our crews in danger?
Could this have been avoided by shuttle extension?  Consider the multi- year gap in which America must use the Soyus system.

The ASAP minutes are available on the net. The NASA analysis of Soyus manned rating  as compared to ours is also available.  How about a story by NASA watch, spaceflightnow, space review, etc.
Isn't it interesting how you viewpoint changes when things go your way.
How can one read the papers NASA plans put America at risk, the case to save the shuttle and the Hale blog piece on manned rating the Soyus  and not be EXTREMELY concerned about the American crews on Soyus.
Reading the ASAP minutes, the NASA analysis, I ask you Mr. NASA Chief, Are you comfortable about the safety of American crews?