It would be a serious strategic error for President Bush to allow such affronts to American sovereignty to go unchallenged.

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There are policy differences, and then there are affronts that have to be answered every time without equivocation, and this is one of them.

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These moves by Putin are just the latest in a long string of affronts and rebuffs mocking U.S. President Barack Obama's hope that he could "reset" U.S.-Russian relations.

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Just like inter-racial marriages and inter-religious marriages were once considered immoral affronts to decency but are now accepted as part of the rich fabric of American life, so too will same-sex marriage eventually just be accepted.

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Olbers was guilty of all three affronts.

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