Which country do these guys work for again?
I worked with, and crossed swords with Kaufman. He is a Libs Liberal. There is no position that he cannot take one more extreme. Intelligent he is, but not very tolerant of others views.
When the Catholic Church was “opening its doors”, Kaufman was there with an axe.
Another Bush-Condi Rice surrender.
Damned and I voted for him.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
Defeating the inhuman social system of Communism was worth American blood and treasure. Confronting Great Russian nationalism is not.
What would our tax dollars be buying in the continued broadcasts?
Beaming Soros-style ‘open society’ propaganda against the reestablishment of traditional Orthodox Christian society? Gay-rights propaganda? Arguments that a progressive income tax like we have is better than a flat tax like Russia has? Deprecation of religious education in state schools like Russia had instituted?
The Russians who would be inclined to get their news from Western sources, rather than Russian sources can all get the internet, the BBC World Service, and the like.
This relic of the fight against Communism has outlived its usefulness. We won. Let it go to an honored grave.
August 18, 2008
The Sound of Silence: The Decline of the Voice of America in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
by Helle C. Dale and Oliver Horn
http://www.heritage.org/Research/PublicDiplomacy/wm2029.cfm.