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Condomsleezza Rice: Russian asylum for Snowden is a "slap in the face" to U.S.
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice questioned the value of working toward a close relationship with Russia amid increasingly frayed ties between the two nations. Earlier this week, President Obama canceled a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of next month's G20 summit in St. Petersburg, due in part to Moscow's decision to grant NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum - something Rice called a "slap in the face" to the U.S.
"President Obama tried to, quote, reset relations with Russia. We reset and Russia didn't. And so the question is what's left of our interest in dealing with this Russia?" Rice asked.
"The relationship today is really terrible, just to be very blunt about it," Rice told Rose, "But it's not the Cold War. The Russia of today is a diminished power. It still has nuclear weapons. It still has a security council veto. But it is, on any given day, the 14th, 15th or 16th largest economy in the world, in a world in which economic power matters."
[link to www.cbsnews.com]
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