If youre keeping up Ukraine, surely youve read this open letter to - TopicsExpress

If youre keeping up Ukraine, surely youve read this open letter to the German Chancellor? Obama, however, has only tenuous control over the policymakers in his administration – who, sadly, lack much sense of history, know little of war, and substitute anti-Russian invective for a policy. One year ago, hawkish State Department officials and their friends in the media very nearly got Mr. Obama to launch a major attack on Syria based, once again, on intelligence that was dubious, at best... our suspicions increase that a major effort is under way to fortify arguments for the NATO summit to approve actions that Russia is sure to regard as provocative.