Selective Stupidity

Listening to Robert Kagan bloviate on NPR on the way home from work about how Russia was Germany circa 1935 and about to unleash a whole new war upon the Earth, and how it was unfortunate Russia was revealing itself as a "19th century power" using "military force to achieve geopolitical aims" I couldn't help but notice that he had failed to cite a country and its belligerent leader that had gone halfway around the world to do the same thing to another sovereign nation in 2003.

When will it finally dawn upon the world that the US can do absolutely nothing about Russia?

UPDATE: And if Joe Klein of all people turns out to be a shining beacon of reason and thinks Bob Kagan is full of shit, then your argument is dead on arrival to the Village.

But it is important, yet again, to call out the endless neoconservative search for new enemies, mini-Hitlers. It is the product of an abstract over-intellectualizing of the world, the classic defect of ideologues. It is, as we have seen the last eight years, a dangerous way to behave internationally. And it has severely damaged our moral authority in the world...I mean, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, after Abu Ghraib, after our blithe rubbishing of the Geneva Accords, why should anyone listen to us when we criticize the Russians for their aggression in the Caucasus?