Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and President Bush at the NATO meeting in April. Michel Euler/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFrom The New York Times:
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WASHINGTON — When the presidents and prime ministers of every NATO nation met in Bucharest, Romania, in April, they agreed unanimously that Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics, would someday, without a doubt, enter the Western alliance.
But in the face of Russian resistance and even some recalcitrance within the alliance, the leaders could not agree to formally invite either Ukraine or Georgia to the ritual of requirements, reforms and deadlines. It was the diplomatic equivalent of proposing marriage without setting the wedding day. And it was a notable rejection of American policy, which had long sought to begin the formalities of the engagement, known in NATO parlance as a Membership Action Plan.
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My Comment: Everyone is waiting for President Barack Obama.
