Meaningless verbiage piles up on meaningless verbiage. As Rice drones on, she sounds indistinguishable from Strobe Talbott, Lawrence Summers, Richard Holbrooke and the rest of the Clinton crowd. Russia too is a threat. Like the Albrights and Talbotts she wants to create US satellites in the Caucasus. Goerge W. Bush s agenda will be the familiar one of bombing, deterring, containing, punishing, lecturing, impoverishing.
China has to be stopped from becoming a regional hegemon.
Russia must stop trying to keep its Federation together. Europeans must stop trying to build up an independent military capability. Saddam Hussein must be overthrown. Iran must be contained. And so and so on.