[sam_paine]

and it seems to prove that the pollyanna Condoleeza Rice learned nothing by her study of Russia and the Soviet Empire.

You had me going till that little snidebit.

[gaspar]

I am an equal opportunity basher. Rice is certainly less pathetic than the clueless Strobe Talbott, Bill Clinton's Russian expert, who in his book called the feckless Clinton a "Russian Hand".