Condi Rice on Status Quo vs. Revisionist Powers

Here's Secretary Rice at the Economic Club of New York:

America has always been, and will always be, not a status quo power, but a revolutionary power.

For everybody who stubbornly wants to shoehorn Rice into the "responsible realist" role in the Bush saga, it bears noting that she's cribbing this stuff from Tom Donnelly.  There's a strong whiff of Kagan in here, too.

You really do have to ask yourself how this sort of thing sounds in, say, Tehran.