Will GOP attempt restart Cold War accidentally remind public of reality?

[yurbud]

Poll question: Will GOP attempt restart Cold War accidentally remind public of reality?

The Bushies and McCain's false promises of support to Georgia to get them to attack Ossetia to provoke a Russian response may have some positive side effects:

• Reminding people that Russia has over 10,000 nukes makes the supposed threat from Iraq and now Iran getting a handful of nukes look hollow and pathetic, like a cop shooting a kid because he saw a slingshot in his pocket.
  
  
• Reminding people that brute force is not always a viable choice to get what you want. Essentially, foreign policy is like chess, requiring the ability to think of your opponent's reaction and your counter-moves several steps out. The Bush administration has been like a caveman, beating the chess board with their club.
  
  But in the case of Russia, that won't work since they can hit back.

My question: will the public see this?

[hedgehog]

1. It's happening, the only question is how long it will take.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. This happened in spite of Bush, not because of him.

More conflict with Russia is the last thing Bush wants - it's bad for American economic interests, and bad for American international influence.

Describing this as "a Bush attempt to restart the Cold War" is conspiracy theory gone mad.

[yurbud]

3. see right wing responses at Yahoo Answers:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819102334AAGXPQM&r=w