Send in the Clowns

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. today. This is some of what she had to say.

"The picture emerging from this pattern of behavior is that of a Russia increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad. Our strategic goal now is to make it clear to Russia's leaders that their choices are putting Russia on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance. We cannot afford to validate the prejudices that some Russian leaders seem to have: that if you pressure free nations enough -- if you bully, and threaten, and lash out -- we will cave in, and forget, and eventually concede."

What is truly scary is that there was not one shred of irony in her voice.

This ignorant circus must end.


Larry B