mentality that he thought people like mccain and those of his ilk were trying to compare this crisis to, was akin to another rocky movie. don't make this rocky iv, to paraphrase him. by sum airily dismissing this, letting it escalate, doing nothing, where does that go? >> well, i think it's a useful line for the republicans to use because often, president obama has looked weak vis-a-vie president putin. it's fair to say we're not on the edge of nuclear disaster as we were with the cuban missile crisis. on the other hand, president putin seems to be of a cold war mentality. you can take putin out of the kgb, but i don't think you can ever take the kgb out of putin. >> well put. word from the u.s. ambassador to the united nations that the u.s. is gravely, gravely disturbed by