Can George Bush be any more tone deaf?

George Bush went to Moscow. Continued to show the world that Condi's hus...., boss, is a tone deaf fool who exemplifies The Ugly American. The Boston Globe commented:

History has weighed heavily on President Bush's trip to Latvia and Russia to commemorate the Allied victory over German fascism.

What should be clear after Bush angered Russians by speaking of the Soviet 'occupation" of the Baltic states -- rather than the ''liberation" Russia's President Vladimir Putin has evoked -- is that one's reading of history can have a great bearing on the present and the future. And though Bush said some things in the Latvian capital of Riga and in Moscow that needed to be said, he was speaking as a leader who has demonstrated an unfortunate insensitivity to the lessons his predecessors learned from the inferno of World War II.

I'm not crazy about being so harsh, but it just astonishes me that the president of U.S., with all the resources he has about cross-cultural sensitivity and historical perspective, can continue to step in it like some crass cowboy from Crawford, Texas.