I am not sure why this post turned out truncated . . . BUT it should have read:

Seeing Russia from Alaska is like seeing Los Angeles from New York. Standing on the Bering Straights and looking the coast of what used to be the U.S.S.R. is not seeing Russia.

This makes as much sense as 'Surging' across the shared Iraqi-Pakistani border (spelled I-R-A-N) to get bin Laden.

Have none of the Republicans ever seen a globe?