Word: sovietize
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...much as the entire defense budget of Germany, not exactly a dwarf among the nations. With the possible exception of Rome, no country has ever commanded such a vast lead over all the others. Nor is that power counterbalanced any longer by a worthy rival such as the Soviet Union. The U.S. is like an XXL-size Gulliver, and even his friends worry about him. The Europeans worry even more when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says "the mission determines the coalition, and not the other way round." In other words: "We'll call you when we need...
...metaphor for the changed nature of the relationship," says Rice. "For the next several days, it was one of the first things the President mentioned in conversation." A few months later, Putin made an extraordinary concession when he agreed to the stationing of American troops in some former Soviet republics in central Asia to facilitate the U.S. war in Afghanistan...
...hospitality Bush showed Putin at his Texas ranch last November. The following week they will be together again, this time in Rome, where they are expected to sign an agreement giving Russia a kind of junior partnership in NATO, the cold war military alliance created to confront the Soviet threat. Rice, who shares her boss's newfound optimism about Russia and its leader, fairly gushes when she describes the transformation. "To see the kind of relationship that Presidents Bush and Putin have developed and to see Russia firmly anchored in the West," she told Time last week, "that's really...
...policy, including his snubbing of Moscow. Among the signs of disrespect: the ouster from the U.S. of 50 alleged Russian diplomat-spies in March 2001, the five-month delay before setting a first Bush-Putin meeting, and the threat, since carried out, to withdraw unilaterally from the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Antiballistic Missile Treaty in order to build a national missile-defense system. British Prime Minister Tony Blair personally urged Bush to tone down the rhetoric and engage with Putin. Others, including some veterans of the senior Bush's Administration, lectured the President and his advisers that Russia still mattered...
...desk in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or of a disgraced Richard Nixon waving, both hands raised, boarding the plane that final day. Did Democrats capitalize on images of Nixon's impeachment? Of course. Did Republicans publicly question Kennedy's maturity and ability to handle the Soviet threat? Absolutely...