151. dtmack:

Your point about Kosovo is well taken. I argued the same position at the time. Russia has been historically protective of the Serbs and our treatment of them was stupid to say the least. It didn’t even help us with the Muslims who hate us no matter what we do. This might go down as the mistake the Bush administration made that will have the worst long range consequences for the West. Russians have long memories.

I have feared for a long time now that we will have terrible trouble with Russia. It is much more dangerous now that it has been liberated from the stultifying effects of Communism.

156. Marie Claude:

I believe that an honest evaluation of the worst mistakes that were made by an American administration after the fall of the Communist regime were made by the Clinton administration. That’s when Americans were directly complicit in the horrendous corruption taking place and when the Russian Mafia, aka the KGB, was allowed to infiltrate American society and businesses.