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Is Putin Blinking?

If reports that Russian troops are turning back from Gori are correct, then the steps for which the Wall Street Journal praises the Bush administration today may already be working.

If this is a head-fake, though, the US still has options. Charles Krauthammer has a column today with a lot of ideas on how to get Russia to back off from the goal of a puppet government in Georgia.

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John Tabin is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator online.

http://spectator.org/blog/2008/08/14/is-putin-blinking

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