Condoleezza Rice's Comedy Routine

There is really nothing to add to this Greenwald piece except that back when Condi was a Sovietologist, her academic achievements were meager, and she was in the process of moving out of the scholar track before the fall of the Soviet Union. To put it another way, if she were a great scholar, it would have been a waste of her time to serve as Stanford Provost. Her Wikipedia page states,

According to R. Nicholas Burns, President [George H. W.] Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice in his dealings with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

In other words, no one deserves the Caucasus mess more than she does. We can wish her success in her new career as a stand-up comedienne once she and George W. Bush leave their respective offices.

Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"

It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries, espouses standards that it routinely violates, but still, even in light of such routine hypocrisy, wouldn't you think that this, from Condoleezza Rice today, on an airplane to U.S. reporters while traveling to a NATO meeting, would be too brazen to utter:

Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power. That's not the way to deal in the 21st century.

Whatever one's views are on the justifiability of each isolated instance, it's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies, and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet. It's not even a close competition.

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