"I was absolutely gobsmacked by what seemed to be a 180 by her,"

               Sounds Irish.

             That's one of the funny things about Kosovo and American politics. Because Bill Clinton hailed it as a triumph, one would have thought that Dubya would have been down on it. But it gave him a chance to take a poke at the Russians, and I'd just supposed that that was enough to win him over.

             Now, what you are saying about Powers doing a 180 on it, tells us where Obama would be with it, but it doesn't really tell us why.

             One of the most interesting elements of the whole thing, during the build up to bombing the Serbs, Madaline Albright discovered she was Jewish. I always thought that was an interesting side-line event, but I've never been able to connect the dots on that either.