Or so we thought. In a story from Reuters (linked through Yahoo below), we learn that a recent speech Cheney delivered in Vilnius is being compared to Churchill's 1946 speech defining the "iron curtain." Though I'm sure Cheney's speech did not possess one-tenth the gravitas of any of Churchill's utterings.
So, we (not me, but the collective 'we' of Americans) chose an incompetent president, VP and cabinet. That's old news, and is the source of about 10 million diaries a day throughout the blogosphere. But at the very least, we thought we were getting the benefit of a Condi Rice Sovietologist. Sure, we didn't need one...as Clinton departed and Yeltsin yielded to Putin, everything was hunky dory. Hell, Russia was practically a U.S. state, albeit one with lots of vodka and pretty rough winters (try to imagine Spring Break in Prudhoe Bay).
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