The Russian Reset (back)
I remember just a few months ago, The Obama administration promised to "reset" US and Russian relations that were damaged under the Bush administration. Obama threw a bone to the Russians and scrapped the missile defense shield last month which was initiated by the Bush administration. This was not welcomes news in Poland. The Polish press has ripped Obama for abandoning them in order to gain favor with Putin. For quite sometime, the US has tried with no success to convince the Russians to put pressure on Iran in order to slow its nuclear program. Some liberal commentators, such as Fox news contributor Marl Lamont Hill praised the move and was assured that Obama would not have made such a move without a quid pro quo deal in place on Iran. The administration has egg on its face for the second time in as many weeks when the Russians at least for now balked at the idea of sanctions on Iran, calling them "unproductive". So it appears the administration has given up