COMMENTS BY SEAN KAY - This is a really insightful piece by Peter Bienart. What is really troubling about this is that the very same liberals and neoconservatives who pushed NATO right up to Russias borders are still the ones driving the bus today. What did Obama expect when he appointed Dick Cheneys senior national security adviser and Georg W. Bushs NATO ambassador to be Assistant Secretary of State for Europe? People and worldviews matter. I have very little hope that realism and wisdom will prevail here because we neither understand the roots of the crisis that Putin uses to justify his horrid behavior, and to adopt the path to de-escalation would require people in power to reject their own worldviews and acknowledge they were wrong. Being wrong in Washington, howevver, usually just means another promotion.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:32:16 +0000