Worth reading, from the NYT, how the US missed the warning signs on Russian-Georgian squabble. "The story of how a 16-year, low-grade conflict over who should rule two small, mountainous regions in the Caucasus erupted into the most serious post-cold-war showdown between the United States and Russia is one of miscalculation, missed signals and overreaching, according to interviews with diplomats and senior officials in the United States, the European Union, Russia and Georgia. ... It is also the story of how both Democrats and Republicans have misread Russia’s determination to dominate its traditional sphere of influence."

Posted by Laura at August 18, 2008 12:27 AM