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Old 08-11-2008, 10:46 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I can agree with some of the above, but I think it is naive to think that anything the Russians are doing now can be laid to the tone of our actions.

I think it's even more naive to think that our pushing for NATO membership of former Soviet satellite states and "missile defense systems" on Russia's borders can be considered as anything but instigation.

And Putin just let Cheney know that his continued instigation is going to be dealt with very swiftly and very harshly. And the next president gets to pick up the shattered pieces of an extremely failed foreign policy. Yeah Bush.
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