Messenger to Moscow

She traveled to Moscow last week to sell the Russians on the Bush Administration's National Missile Defense (NMD) plan, but Kremlin officials remained unswayed by U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's policy arguments. The Russian public was, however, entirely sold on Rice herself. Although she came bearing the White House's stark message that it intends to forge ahead with a "robust testing and evaluation phase" of NMD, even in possible violation of what it says are the outdated terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the visit of the 46-year-old Russia scholar was covered by an indulgent press. The airwaves were...

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