"we don't want military bases on our border," particularly military bases that represent a country with which we've just conducted a 40 year cold war. that's not about appeasement, it's about something else. the expansion of nato has been a catastrophic mistake in every regard. not a single country safer. let me just end by saying this. what happened last august, 2008 which we called the war between russia and georgia in that little province of georgia was also a proxy american/russian war. right on russia's borders. nothing like that happened during the cold war. two countries laid within nuclear weapons are suddenly fighting on ones border. in our history never. that's what the expansion of nato brought you. it's a bomb waiting to go off. it goes off in a small way in georgia and it can go off again. >> i di do agree very much with chrystia's point that this is in my view a strife contest between modernizers and outreachers or