>>>We have seen an analysis of this on the dutch TV (Yes that is how closely we look at your politics and trying to analyze it... ).
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>>Just like the existence of Kremlinologists was an implicit confession of the importance of their subject.
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>???

You can't earn a PhD in politics on something seriously unimportant, can you? And being a Kremlinologist was a profitable career - there were so many of them in quite high places.

>>Now a rhetorical question: which country has one of those guys as an equivalent of a foreign affairs minister?
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>A Kermlinologist ? Actually I would not know

Actually, ms Rice's dissertation was about "military policy and politics in Czechoslovakia" in 1981... which is not Kremlinology in the narrowest sense, but I still count her as one.

>As a sidenote. I think mcCain is a better repulican candidate as the two Bushes we had the last two decades, so from my point things cannot get worse. Or can it?

If Milošević is any sign (and analogies have their limits), whenever you say something like that, you're challenging Murphy.