Today’s New York Times looks at a new report by the independent research institute the Center for European Reform, which suggests that Central and Eastern Europeans nations feel that NATO pays little heed to their security interests, and that this sense of lack of domestic security is hardly likely to endear them to the idea of participating in overseas NATO missions. This report doubtless confirms thoughts conveyed by David J. Kramer in a rather ‘told-you-so-ish’ op-ed in the Washington Post in which he argues vociferously that the interests of Russia’s neighbors have been entirely precluded in the reset process:

The most glaring example of this trend came this week. In a message accompanying the White House’s resubmission to Congress of a nuclear cooperation pact with Russia, President Obama declared that the situation in Georgia “need no longer be considered an obstacle to proceeding” with congressional review of the agreement. The Bush administration signed this “123” agreement in May 2008 but withdrew it from congressional consideration four months later, knowing it would be rejected in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Georgia that August. Russian forces continue to occupy separatist parts of Georgia in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement between the two countries and are constructing bases in both regions, which Moscow has recognized as independent states. The situation remains tense and could easily explode again.