Rice: Military power is ‘not the way to deal in the 21st century.’
Yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sharply criticized
Russia for relying on its “military power” to accomplish
its goals. Ironically, she said that it “is not the way to deal
in the 21st century.” From her remarks yesterday en route to
Belgium:
But I just want to emphasize again,
Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it
has always used, that will make it – that – when it wishes
to deliver a message, and that’s its military power. That’s
not the way to deal in the 21st century. And if Russia wishes to make
a different strategic choice, as President Medvedev said, this is
a bad way to start.
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald responds to Rice’s remarks: “Just
during the time Rice has served in the Bush administration, we bombed,
invaded and occupied Afghanistan; did the same to Iraq; repeatedly
bombed Somalia, killing all sorts of civilians; fed bombs to Israel
as they invaded and bombed Lebanon; top political officials (led by
John McCain and Joe Lieberman) have repeatedly threatened, and advocated,
that the same be done to a whole host of other countries, including
Iran and Syria.”