Apparently I missed quite the stinging attack against Henry Kissinger made by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his visit to CFR about a month ago. This is interesting to me because for the past six months or so Kissinger has been seen as the leading proponent in the U.S. foreign policy community for rapprochement with Russia, pushing a softer policy line. In a by-lined WaPo article along with George Shulz, Kissinger argued that “We believe that the fundamental interests of the United States, Europe and Russia are more aligned today — or can be made so — even in the wake of the Georgian crisis, than at any point in recent history. We must not waste that opportunity.” Just a couple weeks earlier, Lavrov had this to say about Kissinger’s understanding of events in the Caucasus: