Soul Mates

Another foreign policy 'initiative', that lacks any credibility, based on a supposed threat that doesn't exist, utilizing a system that has failed to live up to expectations - it continues to exhibit zero operational capability - and succeeds only in antagonizing a once and future ally in the GWOT.

And, who will Europe support in this latest fiasco?

If the policy was designed to drive a wedge between and meddle with the developing relationship betwixt Europe and Russia who gains from that? I know who would ultimately lose.

I suppose the idea of a 'Super Europe' stretching from the rocky shores of Galway in the west to the shipyards of Vladivostok in the east is pretty scary to this administration, at least seen in military terms - which is practically the only lens these raving lunatics ever use - but most everything is pretty scary to these self-proclaimed guardians of the American Way, so why not try to disrupt that evolution.

The problem with the concept though is that, I think, Europe has had enough of the sledge hammer approach to global problems and conflicts as evinced by their softly-softly approach toward Iran. I think the US will find very little support at the G8, with Blair pretty much a lame duck, and more pragmatic leadership coming to the fore and with this administrations track record of unsophisticated, ill-conceived, punative foreign policy failures, this half assed attempt at political engineering may find itself back-burnered in-perpetuity.

Update: They rattle a sabre, we, predictably rattle one right back. Odd that we used a NATO spokesman to announce our response.