US-Russia missile defense talks fail (RICE)

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Source: ap



US-Russia missile defense talks fail

By ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers 19 minutes ago

MOSCOW - High-level talks Friday between the United States and Russia failed to bridge major differences over U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Europe and a range of strategic arms issues.

After a series of tense meetings that began with a blunt rebuff from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to have been unable to turn around Moscow's opposition to missile defense.

Rice and Gates brought several new detailed proposals to the table meant to ease Russian concerns that the system would be aimed at Moscow, but the pair was unable to convince Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov or Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov....

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Take a peek at the pic at the yahoo website of our Russian's scholar's eyes!!

[rodeodance]

1. Rice said the ideas that she and Gates presented are "conceptual at this point"

........Rice said the ideas that she and Gates presented are "conceptual at this point" and would be handed to experts to consider further. The two sides plan to meet again in Washington in about six months.

"I know that we don't always see eye-to-eye on every element of the solutions to these issues, nonetheless, I believe we will do this in a constructive spirit, that we will make progress during these talks as we continue to pursue cooperation," Rice said.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. translation from diplospeak:

Putin quoted Dick CHeney accurately, and also told us that we were uniting the world against us.

[bahrbearian]

15. She is in Deep Thought? Or once again Angry.

[Megahurtz]

2. I Guess They Can't

push Russia around. Other Countries should have minds of their own as well.

[seemslikeadream]

3. FAILERS

at EVERYTHING

[livetohike]

4. Condi is supposed to be the expert on Russian relations

So this is the best she can do?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. and that's bullshit.

she wrote an economic paper on a particular, obscure 5 yr plan.
She cannot speak russkie DESPITE taking State courses. (they exaggerated her linguistic skill something awfu. My best friend was there as a State interpreter for the first trip, she could not even understand their "Hello and welcom to Russia greeting" when she got off the plane.)

[livetohike]

8. Wow, I didn't realize that! So much truth has been hidden

all these years....so she isn't as intelligent as the media makes her out to be.

[TomInTib]

10. Exactly. And no one in the limp-dick media ever called them on it.

Just like her "Concert Pianist" schtick. The one time I heard her play, I was actually embarrassed for her. She was awful.

Hell, I am a guitar player and I can play better than she can.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. she is a created, concocted figure

and has been since college. Big Oil has worked on her future, groomed her, named this itty bitty oil tanker after her, placed her as provost, suggested russian studies (the ussr still existed back then) and pushed her into the proper political connections.

[TomInTib]

13. She owes them everything and performs whatever tricks on command.

What a Tool.

[ooglymoogly]

7. They see the writing on the wall and they don't like it.

and Shitler and his bozo's have put this country in such a strong negotiating position, building a strong foundation from a deck of crooked cards. You can bet Shitler will, with the strength of quicksilver, stand behind his agreements. After all he has honored all the past international agreements so well. In reality who would bet their lives on and negotiate with this government and expect this government to keep its word. And that is truly dangerous and sad.

[PATRICK]

9. Odd

we came to better agreement during the Cold War against bloodiy handed adversaries of the old Soviet Union. Now that we have the upper hand so to speak we can't work for sanity or peace. How very strange and disappointing. Did some Russian bang his shoe on the table or something?

[Strelnikov_]

11. Russia, simply by biding its time, will become a superpower again

within the next two decades due to the TREASONOUS policies of the Republican party.

With their position as a energy superpower, they will be poised to recapture the USSR's position when the US and western European economies falter due to energy depletion.

And by playing both sides against each other as they are doing with the Iran/United States crises, they can become that superpower again practically overnight.


"If the enemy is destroying themselves, don't get in the way."

[Supersedeas]

14. to the brink and for what -- so the Sovietologist can feel relevant?