In his triumphant return to blogging, Matt Yglesias notes that the U.S. has, uh, no real leverage to respond to the crisis in Georgia. Even better, as these neocon types fulminate for an aggressive U.S. response, the administration officials who usually enable them are responding with ... laughter.
“We've placed ourselves in a position that globally we don't have the wherewithal to do anything,” Mr. Friedman of Stratfor said. “One would think under those circumstances, we’d shut up.”
One senior administration official, when told of that quote, laughed. “Well, maybe we're learning to shut up now,” he said. He asked that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
Great timing.
--Tim Fernholz
