arguments from the white house was we don t want to change the president s schedule. we don t want to alarm people. well, i m not worried about being alarmed. i am alarmed by what has happened. i m sure everyone else is, too. what about getting together with world leaders, an emergency meeting, and alarming pu ining the first time, maybe, once? i think everyone around this table this morning have said that putin and russia have to be confronted in some way. the question is what does that mean? how will russia be confronted? if you look at it from putin s perspective, he sort of dipped his toe in the water by waltzing into crimea, annexing it, and there were no real repercussions for that. from his way of seeing things, they re not going to push back this time either. yeah, and everything that the west has done so far, these sanctions on individuals and businesses, taking largely symbolic steps like kicking putin out of the g-8 clearly haven t made much of a difference. nothing. a