Still Squaring the NATO-Russia Circle
There are a number of media outlets reporting on the most recent NATO-Russia foxtrot, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s call for an “open-minded and unprecedented dialogue” with Russia. Personally, I’d first rather just go straight to the source:
Listening carefully to Rasmussen’s remarks here, aside from his emphasis on common interests between NATO and Russia – namely, preventing terrorist attacks, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and establishing a stable Afghanistan – the idea that Rasmussen clearly wants us to take away here, repeating it no fewer than three times is, “We can do more.”