The bipartite composition of the committee [headed to Russia] suggests that its recommendations will be sought both by Democratic candidate Barak Obama and by his rival John McCain, whose positions, according to polls, remain close.
After having fought for ten years in the sands of Iraq, America is asking itself if it still has a role to play in a region where it is not even taken especially seriously.
Obama remains insistent that the U.S. must lead the rest of the world and that the 21st century should, like the one preceding it, have the U.S. at the helm. But upon hearing him say these words now, one cannot help but feel that he lacks the wherewithal to back them up.