Rice presses Russia on democratic reform, praises Poland. 06/02/2005. ABC News Online
While encouraging democracy makes sense -- telling a country -- any country -- that it is doing the wrong thing when it is already realing from its loss of world stature is unwise. I support the idea of encouraging democracy in every country. I like almost all Americans think it is the best system of government. Yet I also believe in national sovereigty.
That being said encouraging ties, and creating economic reasons for the former USSR to like us makes more sense than making them feel like some axis of evil. After all we won the cold war by outspending them. Our economic system was better and could better withstand the spemding on military hardware and persons during the cold war.
Following that fatefull day on 9/11 the rest of the world had good feelings for the United States. We need to think about how the policies of the last four years have changed that. Then we should adjust our bravado and speeches accordingly. Are you listening Miss Rice!?
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