“Reset” means obedience
The American Conservative
by Daniel Larison
What may be most remarkable about this is that [Joe Biden’s comment about Russia’s “withering” economy is] not being treated as one of Biden’s legendary gaffes, but rather as an appropriate and acceptable comment. As I was saying earlier this week, the administration must think that Russia’s relatively greater weakness at present will make it more compliant, but I never expected any of its top members to come out and say exactly that. Bizarrely, Biden was offering all of this as evidence in favor of why the ‘reset’ was going to work. In other words, for Biden the ‘reset’ has always meant Russian concessions and submission, and it will ‘work’ because Russia lacks the means to do anything else. This is staggeringly wrong. It seems likely that the ‘reset’ will now blow up in Obama’s face...
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/07/25/reset-means-obedience/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Larison
by Daniel Larison
What may be most remarkable about this is that [Joe Biden’s comment about Russia’s “withering” economy is] not being treated as one of Biden’s legendary gaffes, but rather as an appropriate and acceptable comment. As I was saying earlier this week, the administration must think that Russia’s relatively greater weakness at present will make it more compliant, but I never expected any of its top members to come out and say exactly that. Bizarrely, Biden was offering all of this as evidence in favor of why the ‘reset’ was going to work. In other words, for Biden the ‘reset’ has always meant Russian concessions and submission, and it will ‘work’ because Russia lacks the means to do anything else. This is staggeringly wrong. It seems likely that the ‘reset’ will now blow up in Obama’s face...
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/07/25/reset-means-obedience/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Biden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Larison
rudkla - 27. Jul, 10:12
