Living Too Late

Eight years too late, The Bush Administration may have learned that tact can be used for good, not just for evil.

"So this is what it has come to for the Bush administration in what may be its last foreign policy crisis: No saber-rattling; no calls to expel Russia from the G-8, a la McCain. Instead, a patient effort to work with Europe, in partnership with French diplomats, for heaven's sake! And a policy premised on the idea that global capital markets are a better constraint than U.S. bluff and bluster. "
--David Ignatius