INTERNATIONAL: "Germany Aims to Protect Its Interest by Guiding the West's Ties to Russia," by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 2 December 2008.

CANYOUBELIEVEIT! A great power puts it own economic/energy interests over punishing an energy supplier for its recent, highly-negative behavior. I mean, it's not like Russia produced . . . oh, a dozen-plus suicide bombers who launched the deadliest terror attack on German soil ever.

And yet, Germany has the temerity to ask the West to respect its energy interests over the desires of some to punish.

Good thing America would never turn such a blind eye . . . .