Rice: Military power 'not the way to deal in the 21st century »

Posted By tehranchik 1 year, 4 months ago in News

$U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice listens to U.S. President George W. Bush make a statement about the war between Russia and Georgia in the Rose Garden at the White House August 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. Bush announced that he is dispatching Rice to France and Georgia. Despite a negotiated cease fire between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, news agencies report that columns of Russian tanks continue to move further into Georgia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\r\n$

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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.