two breakaway republics. >> that's right. there was a real reverse to business as usual after the crisis. i was going back to my own work in 2008 and i found something interesting, susan rice, the campaign adviser to barack obama, now national security advisor, saying that this should trigger a full-on review of all our relations with russia, bilateral relations and multilateral. so it's interesting before the reset there was apparently the rethink. >> interesting. susan, i looked at some of the transcripts also. so many pundits viewed this through the prism because it was just three mos before the presidential election of obama versus mccain and there really wasn't a lot of talk of george w. bush at all. that might be one of the key reasons why it's different today. >> well, that's right. remember that bush was winding down his tenure in office, the events show clearly when he consulted with advisers not a single one thought they should consider military action. publicly it was in the throes of