Coalition or Cold War with Russia? Stephen F. Cohen, Katrina vanden Heuvel - The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/coalition-or-cold-war-with-russia-2/ <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001SMKTRi32PPDnZ0EaSlxp_D5iuI-o5XKOL90rJWwrNLq0AjNZxIfGg8bYeFFGY0WX53ZGg_cpecrLvtdjvGz5cQvgXG3ZKgHEszfKToc8-nXo4rtM6YY7TGsi6ozjP4E8WXGKPx1kKxr3Wl0OsRAgs1gJIyKkBwInaoyn_CWejU5LXV2EcP5Wcy_ZtDtEAmsdOtAv3sHp1Ma6FNAyHIf48xjW-J40wvXpaVWwjGCVjgw=&c=jbBGlbln0JzeYJmCFYI_V4rtD0GxiZ2Im5UmmZOPSLCBWIgomJNe8A==&ch=REUfRrH25yVHfdxoq6nlue7IiAaZv5Dl2me_1vzteVgo0Ht1Wniv-Q==> The 130 people murdered in Paris on November 13 and the 224 Russians aboard a jetliner on October 31 confront America's current and would-be policy-makers, Democratic and Republicans alike, with a fateful decision: whether to join Moscow in a military, political, diplomatic, and economic coalition against the Islamic State and other terrorist movements, especially in and around Syria, or to persist in treating "Putin's Russia" as an enemy and unworthy partner. If the goal is defending US and international security, and human life, there is no alternative to such a coalition ... This spreading threat cannot be contained, diminished, or, still less, eradicated without Russia.
