The Cold War is Over? Missed the memo...

"The Cold War is over. The days of satellite states and spheres of influence are behind us." US President George W. Bush (WSJ and others)

Ummm...you will have to excuse me for saying this is little more than the pot calling the kettle black. To say that Moscow risks losing its place on the world stage is absurd. After all, the United States thinks little about its place on the world stage and continues to think little of its place. There are still troops, illegally, in not one but TWO sovereign nations.

Bush would use semantics of "democracy" and "break away state" but Iraq and Afghanistan are sovereign nations as much as Georgia is. The hypocrisy is staggering. The rhetoric would make Orwell and Aristotle spin in their graves. And if it does not make your jaw drop, then I guess the Chinese position that "Politics have no place at the Olympics" is just business as usual. The world is becoming a truly strange place.