Susan Rice on Georgia and McCain

This is making the rounds:

Here's what Rice said:

SUSAN RICE: Here's the thing David, we cannot shoot from the hip. We cannot act on the basis of ideology or preconceived notions. When this crisis began, Barack Obama, the administration indeed and all of our NATO allies took a measured and reasoned approach because we were dealing with the facts as we knew them. John McCain shot from the hip, very aggressive, very belligerent statement. He may or may not have complicated the situation.

It's the shot at the end that is of course ridiculous. Georgia and Russia weren't deciding strategy and tactics based on McCain's pronouncements, any more than they were listening to Obama's.

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