[SoFloFreeper]

Perhaps.

Or, perhaps the weakness of the West may be to blame. Exhibit A gave a shout out to Beau Biden yesterday.

[cripplecreek]

Or, perhaps the weakness of the West may be to blame.

And the fact that we're doing the same sort of crap all across the arab world. We started a raging fire all across the mideast by arming the worst possible players right in Russia's back yard.

Meanwhile, we're still ignoring our own backyard while Russian influence there grows.

I think we would see a very different world today if Bush were still president. He was far from perfect but he did recognize threats and try to head them off ahead of time. Rather than trying to do anything diplomatic, Obama was cowering under the desk in the Oval Office mewling about gay rights in Russia during the Olympics. Bush would have been in Sochi sitting with Putin working on diplomatic solutions to the Ukraine situation.