Condi Forgets the Year, Calls Out "Soviets"

[babylonsister]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/missile_defense.html

Condi Forgets the Year, Calls Out "Soviets"

We're a long time since the days when President Bush gazed into Vladimir's Putin eyes and saw true love, or whatever it was. Now, things aren't going so well. What was supposed to be a conciliatory trip by U.S. officials to discuss missile defense didn't go as planned. Not only was President Vladimir Putin uninterested in U.S. offers to share missile defense technology, but as Noah wrote yesterday, Russia plans to kill the treaty on conventional forces in Europe.

The moribund treaty is of little importance these days -- and the move was largely meant to irk the U.S., which it did. Onetime Sovietologist Condi Rice, perhaps in a flashback to 1985, had this to say: “The idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it."

Note to Condi: it's 2007 and there's no Soviet Union.

[malaise]

1. Please remember Condi is a Soviet expert

who knows zippo about Russia :D

[babylonsister]

2. Please remind me what exactly her area of expertise is, because I

swear I can't figure it out! She's supposed to be such a brain, but imo has done NOTHING of value.

[malaise]

8. Who knows?

Condi's fried rice.

[Fierce]

3. She can't speak Russian for shit, either.

Drives me right up the wall.

[ThomWV]

5. When all you got is a hammer everything looks like a nail.

[merh]

4. it is frightening how out of touch with reality these folks

"in charge" truly are. And the raygun adoring right don't see it, no only have they put us in danger and tarnished our reputation and begun an illegal war, they have begun a cold war again.

fools, this admin and all who support them

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. New bogeyman meet the old bogeyman?

Maybe she's just reminiscing about the good old days when pouring money into the "defense" industry and Pentagon was so much easier by scaring the public with the "Evil Empire".

[KittyWampus]

7. Howard Dean made the same mistake. It was during a Russert interview, IIRC

during his POTUS run.