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

I seem to recall that when Reagan was Prez., Gorbichov's wife was reputed to have earned a degree in Communism from Moscow U. To which someone in the Reagan Govt. responded with something along the line of, "Having a degree in Communism is the equivalent of having a dog license in the USA."