Rice: No "New Cold War" With Russia

[sabra]

Source: AP

(AP) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that it is "not any easy" time in Russia-U.S. relations, but that the tensions do not amount to a new Cold War.

"I don't throw around terms like 'new Cold War,"' Rice said on her way to Moscow for a visit amid growing tensions underlined by President Vladimir Putin's increasing criticism of the United States. "It is a big, complicated relationship, but it is not one that is anything like the implacable hostility" that clouded ties between the United States and the Soviet Union.

"It is not an easy time in the relationship, but it is also not, I think, a time in which cataclysmic things are affecting the relationship or catastrophic things are happening in the relationship," Rice told reporters aboard her plane. "But it is critically important to use this time to enhance those things that are going well and to work on those things that are not going well."

Washington's relations with Moscow are troubled by sharp disagreements on specific issues — in particular the U.S. proposal to place elements of a missile defense system in former Soviet satellite countries — and by a clear rise in the Kremlin's suspicion of American intentions worldwide.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. my hubby and I don't do "cold" wars, anyway.

ours are best served hot.

[Kikosexy2]

8. No, I don't..

get cold sores...that's Cold War Emily...oh, that's very different...nevermind...

[havocmom]

2. Rice, Putin, two of the coldest people on the planet...

more like a frigid war.

[bahrbearian]

3. "No new cold war , We will just rekindel the old cold war"

"See, the embers are still burning"

[tchunter]

4. and by saying there was "no new cold war" all tensions were diffused...

did we compromise on the missile defense shield? on kosovo? on anything? so no, nothings changed except Rice made some idle banter.

[bemildred]

5. Uh oh, that means we're going to have a new cold war with Russia. nt

[Nikki Stone1]

6. Russia's got the pipeline. You seriously expect us to believe that there won't be another Cold War?

Or continutation thereof?

[rkc3]

7. Wait a minute....

I thought Ronald Reagan signed legislation that would "outlaw Russia forever."

Is it possible St. Ronnie was wrong? Say it ain't so.

[bdamomma]

9. what a liar she is.

[Thor_MN]

10. She desperately wants to be relevant again

so I think there may be some conflict of interest.

[MisterP]

11. "D'uh, Condi, how fast can we get to Moscow from Ook-rain?"

[JVS]

12. Oh shit. This means that there is a new cold war with Russia!

[BushOut06]

13. Sorry, Condi. You don't get to choose.

This isn't something you "choose." It happens through stupid-ass actions like YOU and your boss are conducting.

[RL3AO]

14. Its not a cold war...yet.