I don’t have anything clever to say here, but why is the Pentagon releasing a report accusing Russia of having moles in our military and giving troop plans to Saddam?  They’ve apparently had the report for a while and have just decided to declassify it.

Taking the most optimistic view, I could imagine that they are trying to back Russia off so they can flip Lukashenko out of power in Belarus.  Sometimes the national interest and moral principles are not contradictory, even for the Bush administration.

A more pessimistic view might be that it has something to do with the “Great Game” of getting pipelines across Central Asia.

Who knows, though?  It might just be a poke in the eye by old Cold Warriors like Rumsfeld and Cheney with a visceral distrust of Russia. Sometimes their diplomacy seems to be driven by nothing more than childish spite.

It’s hard to guess with these people.

Pete DeWan