Weakness

I suppose George Bush demonstrated an essential weakness by seeking to repair relations with Russia and reaching ground with its leader that both find acceptable. I imagine we'll hear lots of crowing about this from The Corner and Bill Kristol and so forth, right?

Now if we could just approach Iran in a similar way...

Comments

[JimPortlandOR]

My reading of the NYT article differs, it seems. I noted that no numbers or names of treaties were mentioned. I noticed that Condi Lies-When-Her-Mouth-Moves Rice made the US announcement. Bush & Putin, not so much, if any.

Besides, the number now means very little, since the US has made dramatic changes in weapons design/implementation such that the increased accuracy and yield make the large numbers of warheads previously in our arsenal almost irrelevant. (Can't recall where I read this recently - but it is true, I tell ya).

[Brian]

I'm amenable to the idea that this is all a farce too. But it's a much better-acted farce than the farce that constitutes our "diplomatic overtures" to Iran.

[JimPortlandOR]

Have you considered that Bushies think diplomatic overtures means US bombers flying over Iranian facilities, dropping their bombs, and saying 'fuck you very much'?