Russia will always be an enemy.
Didn't whats-his-name look into his eyes and fall in love, or something?
This is a failure of the administration- the buck stops there, and there alone. Bush alienated Putin by rebuking him publicly on a number of issues related to openness and democracy. It was needlessly antagonistic; issues that should have been done behind closed-doors. Last, this administration has been AWOL on the Middle-Eastern crisis; at best, we are dishonoring their new democratic process by arming Abbas and others against Hamas. Thats typically not how democracies work- and we should know better. So the combination of these missteps and outright gaffes has made strange bedfellows between Russia, China, the Middle East, and any other country that disagrees with Americas's foreign policy under Bush. I would not be surprised if a few European countries begin to be drawn to that collective, versus partnering with the US.