There is no reason for Bush to travel to Russia. In his words to the troops he has recanted every promise he made in Europe stating, 'Terrorists don't recognize negotiations...' He has little to no intention to resolve any issue without war. The only legitimate words he spoke was regarding the Afghanistan invasion. We had allies. We were supported by the world and it has a new government for the first time in it's history. However, Afghanistan has a province of Kabul, the national seat where democracy is practiced, the rest of the country is still under the dominance of warlords with an poppy culture.
The troops of which I saw many did not necessarily applaud waiting patiently to hear that would be going home. Waiting to hear how their National Guard service hadn't turned into a lifetime of hell at the mercy of a Commander and Chief bent on hegemony.
Russia will not hold any new concessions, especially after these words to the troops, if anything there will be less and less. Bush hopes to stir the willing resistance of the populous wherever he goes but offers them nothing but a promise to war to join his coalition of the unwilling. The USA has become an example of how a democracy can be trapped into facism to serve undeserving 'megalomaniacs' that would see their profiteering a manifestation of a call to democracy.
He meant not a word that was spoken in corridors and meeting halls in Europe in the attendance of diplomats or German students. He sees the world as a populous as at home, to 'manage' and 'manipulate' to 'cower' to 'intimidate' to the same or different gods of this world or the world of mysticism makes no difference. As long as he can find a way to keep every audience 'believing' he is still worthy of their 'distant belief and consideration' that glimmer of doubt of his aggressive intent buys him leverage, time, money and influence into his agenda of hegemony.
Bush is a fraud, it is just to wonder which face he puts forward is actually fraudulent if not both or all.
