Europe and Russia

As expected, now that it has gotten around to it, the Wall Street Journal doesn't have kind things to say about "Europe's" decision to resume the talks with Russia about a comprehensive cooperative agreement, talks suspended last summer because of the invasion of Georgia. John Vinocour in today's International Herald Tribune is equally scornful of French president Sarkozy's "leadership" of the EU. One trait the two pieces have in common: how Russia plays with the Europeans the way a cat plays with a dead mouse.