A Cold War By Any Other Name

Is still a period of "conflict, tension and competition", despite what Condoleeza Rice may say.

I've missed Conde a bit in the past few months. She hasn't been quite the temple dog she used to be, and the news has sorely lacked her virulent, ultra-conservative evasions during this time of increasing international chaos. Thank whoever that they sent her to Russia.

I have to agree with her, though. I wouldn't call this a Cold War, and if I were Putin, I wouldn't take it personally. It's not as if the Bush administration has maintained cordial, open diplomatic relations with anyone over the past few years. Even the Brits have been pulling away.

I'd call this behavioral isolationism (sans military non-intervention). Or hegemony. Or unilateralism. But Cold War? Please!

Putin has a point, and he clearly understands good spin: Say what you mean by totally overstating the accurate description of the event. It works!

The humor is that Rice is meeting with the Russian biggies to get them to improve their democratic reforms.

(Cough, cough)

And they should be taking advice from us on that because...?