Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice

[CurtSibling]

For a black chick she's whiter than I am, which to anyone who knows me, realizes that I trust her about as much as any other white person. Same went for Colin Powell.

To quote Navin R. Johnson: Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.

That's wonderfully misinformed and racially insensitive of you.

 

[Stapel]

True, by our standards, Iran is an imperfect democracy. But what gives us the right to invade and occupy countries because they dont live up to our standards? Its possible that in other parts of the world, with vastly different cultures and religions, different forms of government will be tried and occasionally succeed that bear no resemblance to what we enjoy in the West. A thousand years ago, we felt their religion was intolerable, so we launched the Crusades, which were mostly miserable failures, today, we feel their systems of government are intolerable, so we launch things like "Operation Iraqi Freedom", which is another miserable failure in the making. When are we going to learn?

There were more than one reason to invade, not just regime change (though that was an important reason).
One thing I like about the US, is their willingness to act. Even if their actions are plain stupid.
It is a bit too easy to just say any action is going to be a failure.
That doesn't take away the fact that any reasonably historically informed individual could have seen the plan to invade Iraq was incomplete (no feasible post-invasion plan at all), and thus laughably unprofessional.

 

[stratego]

When Bush was asked if there's any significance in him choosing two African Americans to be Secretary of States he simply replied

YES, ONCE YOU GO BLACK, YOU NEVER GO BACK

 

[Bozo Erectus]

There were more than one reason to invade, not just regime change (though that was an important reason).
One thing I like about the US, is their willingness to act. Even if their actions are plain stupid.

Often its better to do nothing, than to do the wrong thing.

It is a bit too easy to just say any action is going to be a failure.

Its also too easy to say "Hey we're frustrated here, lets just attack them and destroy their cities, at least we'd be doing something!"

That doesn't take away the fact that any reasonably historically informed individual could have seen the plan to invade Iraq was incomplete (no feasible post-invasion plan at all), and thus laughably unprofessional.

Seems to me that its better to keep ones troops at home, than to send them on a misson without a workable plan.

 

[storealex]

She said US should punish France and ignore Germany. How can that fuel anything but anti-Americanism in Europe? With her in charge, the transatlantic cooperation is going bye bye...

 

[Longasc]

I think she is a power-politician that shares some traits with WW2-extremists: She is radical in her ideology, near mercyless and she admits no errors, and she does not so much mind the dead that her foreign policy causes.

All for the greater good of the United States.

I know a person who fought for the greater good of Germany, Europe, perhaps the whole Aryan race.


If someone finds this comparison distasteful, I must still say this is what she did and does.

She is no Iron Lady, no Maggie Thatcher. Intelligence without morality is a bad thing - even if Condi wishes the best, she is relentlessly pushing forward a terrible and dangerous foreign policy, alienating the rest of the world.

Maybe it is her that we should fear - she is the person who explains the president foreign policy in simple words so that he can understand it... this is a true statement about her and her relation to Bush, it would be funny if she would not be playing with the weapons arsenal of a superpower, and she is not really a peacemonger.

 

[Bronx Warlord]

She did mention the word diplomacy about... 26 times at last count, so I doubt she will be pushing for isolationist type policy.

As far as punishing France? what for, there a regional power at best without the EU.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Voodo Foreign Policy: Do whatever you want, as long as you say the word 'diplomacy' as often as possible.

 

[Adebisi]

Dont you Condoleeza Rice fans ever think of the poor dictators?

Jan 18 (Interfax-West) - The Belarussian Foreign Ministry has expressed displeasure with the fact that U.S. secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice mentioned Belarus among the countries she labeled as "outposts of tyranny" while speaking at Senate on Tuesday.

"False stereotypes and prejudices are a bad foundation for pursuing an efficient policy in the sphere of relations between countries," he said.

Poor Belarussian dictaroship, they're being a victim of "prejudice" and "false stereotypes"!

 

[luiz]

For a black chick she's whiter than I am, which to anyone who knows me, realizes that I trust her about as much as any other white person. Same went for Colin Powell.

To quote Navin R. Johnson: Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.

You don't trust white people?

 

[Steph]

Did she really say that the Tsunami was a wonderful event, because it was an occasion to show the generosity of the American people ?
Or was it badly translated into French ? What was the original sentence?

 

[stratego]

3) Not, not, not her job to lay out an exit strategy. There are others that should have done that.

Perhaps the others who were supposed to come up with an exit strategy were not informed that there will be a war.

LinkUS President George W Bush decided to invade Iraq without consulting Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld or Secretary of State Colin Powell, according to a new book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward.

In fact, Powell was not even told until after the Saudi Ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, was allowed to review war plans in an effort to enlist his country's support for the invasion, according to Plan of Attack, which is being excerpted this week in the Post.

The book is based on interviews with 75 people involved in planning for the war, including Bush.

Woodward, who has written or co-written several best-selling books on US politics, including All the President's Men, quotes Bush as saying he did not feel the need to consult his advisors because "I could tell what they thought".

"I didn't need to ask them their opinion about Saddam Hussein. If you were sitting where I sit, you could be pretty clear. I think we've got an environment where people feel free to express themselves," Bush is quoted as saying.

But Bush said he did discuss the issue with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.