It's On - Bush & Putin Launch Cold War II

The Frat Boy scores another first. He just goaded Russia's Dark Prince Vlad into bringing back that Golden Oldie, cold war. The original, the real Cold War, ended on his Dad's watch but there's nothing George w. likes more than to show up the Old Man.

Why would the Russians not trust the West, especially one with a supposed leader like Shrub? This is the same w. who scrapped the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and made a complete farce of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The same w. who put his name to the Bush Doctrine of eternal supremacy and pre-emptive war of whim, who claimed virtual US ownership of space, who drove America's already staggering military spending straight through the roof, who plans to develop a whole new generation of nuclear weapons including devices to be used in conventional warfighting, who has developed supposed anti-ballistic missile radars and interceptors which he intends to position as close to Russia as Poland, who extended NATO's membership roles to Russia's border, who has invoked a military pact with India and Japan that flanks both China and Russia, who has invaded one country without UN sanction and threatens to repeat that performance elsewhere, and so much more. What's not to trust?

As dodgy a character as Putin may be, he'd have to be an idiot to trust George w's West and not react to these provocations. The only truly remarkable thing in all of this is that the rest of the West has been so complacent to these destabilizing initiatives from Washington.

Now we have a resurgent Russia, flush with oil wealth and resentful of its recent past, rearming and we have China rearming and we have India rearming and, to a lesser extent, Japan rearming and, of course, America massively rearming. That sure bodes well - huh?

So we've got a Cold War again. Unless you're nearing retirement age or better you probably don't fully understand what that means and you probably don't understand how easy these damned things are to start, how insanely dangerous they can become and how damned hard they are to undo.

Thanks George. There may be tender eyes reading this so I'll suffice to call you a complete, anal sphincter.