I owe the Obama administration an apology. Since the early days of 2009, I’ve attributed our Russia policy to naivete. To that romance which those who sat at the feet of Old School commies feel for the Worker’s Paradise of the former USSR. Sure, there was garden variety incompetence and intellectual bankruptcy but when you staff you administration with academics that is baked in. And, of course, they wanted to prove ‘we are not George Bush’. But mostly, I thought, they were laboring under the naive misconception that Russia was anything other than a rapacious, nuclear armed, kleptocracy. I was...