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I'd almost like to live in Condoleezza Rice's mind. It seems like such a beautiful place.
From the Atlantic Monthly:
With Rumsfeld and Powell gone, and Cheney's power diminished, this is Condoleezza Rice's moment. Can she salvage America's standing in the Middle East—and defuse the threat of a nuclear Iran?
Behind the curtain in Washington and Jerusalem with the secretary of state
by David Samuels
GRAND ILLLUSIONS
.... Unlike Donald Rumsfeld's finger- wagging, Rat Pack–era version of realpolitik, or Dick Cheney's paranoia about mushroom clouds and sleeper cells, Rice's views are the kind of optimistic stuff that mothers might wish their children were being taught in school.
Reminds me of her 2006 conversation with Cal Thomas:
... I just don't believe mothers want their children to grow up to be suicide bombers. I think the mothers want their children to grow up to go to university. And if you can create the right conditions, that's what people are going to do.
QUESTION: Do you think this or do you know this?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think I know it.
QUESTION: You think you know it?
SECRETARY RICE: I think I know it.
QUESTION: Is it because — do you think you know it because you want to believe it or do you think you know it because of conversations with tens, scores, hundreds
SECRETARY RICE ....I really believe that the people of the Middle East — not the extremists — want the same things that everyone else wants. I haven't seen a society yet where it wasn't true. Let me put it that way. I haven't seen a society yet where ordinary people, given an opportunity, wouldn't opt for a better life and for peace.
Back to Grand Illusions now, Samuels quotes an article Condi wrote in Foreign Affairs:
"American values are universal."
Yeah right, that's why we call them American values. And her colleague Richard Armitage:
"I didn't know that [Rice] had any strong views," says Richard Armitage, Powell's deputy, who did not think highly of her performance. "I mean, she was an expert in one country that no longer exists."
And this is interesting, albeit terribly frightening:
When I asked Rice to name a book that influenced her thinking about the Middle East, she hesitated.... She finally mentioned the UN Human Development Report, which she said had opened her eyes to the dearth of patents issued in Muslim countries.
- Condi Blasts "loathsome" Cnn Reporter For Trashing Us
Condi clearly has little patience for this idiotic CNN reporter. From Gateway Pundit: CNN reporter Zain Verjee interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the shoe-chucking incident in Baghdad. Vergee asked Condi how it feels knowing America...
- Papyrolatry
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for the Hamas-led Palestinian government to recognize Israel, saying at the start of a regional tour that innocent Palestinians were being hurt by factional infighting. Asked...
- Beijing's View: Rice Sidelines Rumsfeld And Cheney
Condi's gross miscalculation of the French is at best --naive, at worst -- America's complete capitulaton to socialist, commie Eurabia. An historic, missed opportunity. Does she know that the French were lying about her every step of the way?...
- How To Tell Hizballah Is Scared
Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah Calls on Arab Leaders to Promote Ceasefire in Meetings With U.S. The following are excerpts from an interview with Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, which aired on Al-Manar TV on August 3, 2006. It is...
- Condi Speaks - "we're Clueless But We Hope To Break The Law And Fund Hamas, Islam's Leading Terrorists"
Rice Admits U.S. Underestimated Hamas Strength - NY Times By STEVEN R. WEISMAN Published: January 30, 2006 "I've asked why nobody saw it coming," Ms. Rice said, speaking of her own staff. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."...
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"I Think I Know It": On The Pretty Unicorns In Condi's Mind
I'd almost like to live in Condoleezza Rice's mind. It seems like such a beautiful place.
From the Atlantic Monthly:
With Rumsfeld and Powell gone, and Cheney's power diminished, this is Condoleezza Rice's moment. Can she salvage America's standing in the Middle East—and defuse the threat of a nuclear Iran?
Behind the curtain in Washington and Jerusalem with the secretary of state
by David Samuels
GRAND ILLLUSIONS
.... Unlike Donald Rumsfeld's finger- wagging, Rat Pack–era version of realpolitik, or Dick Cheney's paranoia about mushroom clouds and sleeper cells, Rice's views are the kind of optimistic stuff that mothers might wish their children were being taught in school.
Reminds me of her 2006 conversation with Cal Thomas:
... I just don't believe mothers want their children to grow up to be suicide bombers. I think the mothers want their children to grow up to go to university. And if you can create the right conditions, that's what people are going to do.
QUESTION: Do you think this or do you know this?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think I know it.
QUESTION: You think you know it?
SECRETARY RICE: I think I know it.
QUESTION: Is it because — do you think you know it because you want to believe it or do you think you know it because of conversations with tens, scores, hundreds
SECRETARY RICE ....I really believe that the people of the Middle East — not the extremists — want the same things that everyone else wants. I haven't seen a society yet where it wasn't true. Let me put it that way. I haven't seen a society yet where ordinary people, given an opportunity, wouldn't opt for a better life and for peace.
Back to Grand Illusions now, Samuels quotes an article Condi wrote in Foreign Affairs:
"American values are universal."
Yeah right, that's why we call them American values. And her colleague Richard Armitage:
"I didn't know that [Rice] had any strong views," says Richard Armitage, Powell's deputy, who did not think highly of her performance. "I mean, she was an expert in one country that no longer exists."
And this is interesting, albeit terribly frightening:
When I asked Rice to name a book that influenced her thinking about the Middle East, she hesitated.... She finally mentioned the UN Human Development Report, which she said had opened her eyes to the dearth of patents issued in Muslim countries.
- Condi Blasts "loathsome" Cnn Reporter For Trashing Us
Condi clearly has little patience for this idiotic CNN reporter. From Gateway Pundit: CNN reporter Zain Verjee interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the shoe-chucking incident in Baghdad. Vergee asked Condi how it feels knowing America...
- Papyrolatry
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for the Hamas-led Palestinian government to recognize Israel, saying at the start of a regional tour that innocent Palestinians were being hurt by factional infighting. Asked...
- Beijing's View: Rice Sidelines Rumsfeld And Cheney
Condi's gross miscalculation of the French is at best --naive, at worst -- America's complete capitulaton to socialist, commie Eurabia. An historic, missed opportunity. Does she know that the French were lying about her every step of the way?...
- How To Tell Hizballah Is Scared
Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah Calls on Arab Leaders to Promote Ceasefire in Meetings With U.S. The following are excerpts from an interview with Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, which aired on Al-Manar TV on August 3, 2006. It is...
- Condi Speaks - "we're Clueless But We Hope To Break The Law And Fund Hamas, Islam's Leading Terrorists"
Rice Admits U.S. Underestimated Hamas Strength - NY Times By STEVEN R. WEISMAN Published: January 30, 2006 "I've asked why nobody saw it coming," Ms. Rice said, speaking of her own staff. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."...