Ukraine: Another 3 AM Wake-Up Call Going Unheeded. Ed Morrissey, Hot Air: When Condoleezza Rice became national security adviser and then Secretary of State, critics snickered at her background as an expert on the Soviet Union. What relevance would that have, they snickered, in a post-Soviet world? The George W. Bush administration got criticism for supposedly living in the Cold War past in regard to Russia, with the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton going so far as to offer a reset button to repudiate previous US policies toward Russia — while it still occupied the Georgia provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which it does to this day. Fast forward five years, and suddenly Rice looks … very, very relevant. “Suddenly we’re discovering the consequences of the return to moral relativism in US foreign policy. It’s eerily similar to the Carter years, where an American President scolded his countrymen over their ‘inordinate fear of communism’ in an attempt to ‘reset’ the Cold War. Weakness never produces good results. History repeats itself, too, the first time as tragedy, and the second time as farce.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:30:28 +0000