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To: stsimon who wrote (249159)	4/16/2014 7:07:30 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542597

Wha'cha think.. ..since neither Bush, Clinton or the Senate had the balls to commit to anything, we should get after Obama for not doing more than his predecessors agreed to? Sounds like standard Obama bitching... The Budapest Memorandum was negotiated as a political agreement. It refers to assurances, not defined, but less than a military guarantee of intervention. [1] [2] [10]According to Stephen MacFarlane, a professor of international relations "It gives signatories justification if they take action, but it does not force anyone to act in Ukraine." [9] In the U.S. neither the George H. W. Bush administration nor the Clinton administration was prepared to give a military commitment to Ukraine, nor did they believe the U.S. Senate would ratify an international treaty, so the memorandum was agreed as a political agreement. [10] en.wikipedia.org