[boomop1]

Right, we have never had Russia as allies and never will the Russian government like China will be enemy forever, unless we nukeum good, sarcasm.

[NeoCaveman]

we certainly want to succeed in Iraq and what we've been doing certainly didn't make us happy here, with Sadr still running around for example.

Well that was substantive (/sarc).

Personally, I think not bringing Russia into the fold as an ally was the greatest mistake made in the Bush 41 administration, but then again they were never into democracy.

Maybe some day, there will be a good northern alliance but the U.S. has to reach out and Russia needs to quit arming our enemies, like Iran.