The details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute is rightly remembered as a minor part of a much bigger dramaReally? The Nazi's huh?
It is exactly this kind of grandiose, anti-realist, analysis that has made our foreign policy decisions so unproductive during the Bush years. Let's everyone say this together now: Seeing the world through this neo-con lens does not work.
If you taped Putin's eyes open and forced him to read this, do you figure he'd be thinking, "damn it all, Robert Kagan is on to me" before smiling menacingly, or do you think he'd just laugh his ass off?
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