>>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.

>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."

Yet his administration had loads of exactly those guys on fat salaries :).

Update: on second thought, he does strike me just as the guy to whom Country Joe and The Fish would have dedicated a song while he was the gov'nar of California. He didn't have any respect for the enemy - where's the chivalry? The above quote sounds so redneck.