People insist on misunderestimating George Bush.

neolex, perhaps you can detail all those blunders you casually mentioned earlier. The man has somehow managed to deal with a Congress full of punk ass surrender monkeys, and an even greater level of punk ass surrender monkeys in Europe, but all you see are blunders. Have I read that wrong? I hope so, but I suspect not.

What will Russia do now? What is Iran going to do? And their cheerleaders at Asia Times and Orbat — do they have their canned scripts?

Chess *is* being played by America. And sometimes we do crush the dadgum board and start all over, without blinking. That’s part of our genius.

So yeah, I think it was the Russians who were suckered here. And I’ll believe it until proven otherwise. Now we get to see if the Iranians and one of their associates can do the same thing to us.