Slate's Fred Kaplan: Condoleezza Rice Has a Lot of Nerve

[flpoljunkie]

Condoleezza Rice Has a Lot of Nerve

The former secretary of state presided over a failure. She has no business lecturing Obama on international politics.

By Fred Kaplan
Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012


Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at the Republican National Convention on Aug. 29, 2012
Photo by Stan Honda/AFP/GettyImages.

To watch Condoleezza Rice, the face of George W. Bush’s foreign policy, stand before a convention of cheering Republicans and condemn Barack Obama for diminishing America’s standing in the world—one can only gasp at the magnitude of chutzpah in one woman.

After describing a world of freedom fighters and tyrants, Bush’s former secretary of state and national security adviser lamented, “Everyone asks, where does America stand?’ Indeed that is the question of the hour,” she continued, for when “friends or foes alike don’t know the answer to that question, unambiguously and clearly, the world is likely to be a more dangerous and chaotic place … We cannot be reluctant to lead, and you cannot lead from behind.”

The solution, she concluded, is to elect Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. “They know what to do,” she said. “They know that our friends and allies must again be able to trust us.”

First, it’s not at all clear that they have the slightest idea what to do or even—judging from Romney’s disastrously tin-eared trip to Europe this summer—how to think about what to do.

Second (this is the chutzpah part), Condi Rice—a top adviser in the most disastrous, reputation-crippling foreign-policy administration in decades—has no business lecturing anybody on this score.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2012/08/condoleeza_rice_s_foreign_policy_record_in_george_w_bush_s_administration_pales_in_comparison_to_what_barack_obama_s_administration_has_accomplished_.html

[Cha]

1. Sure as hell didn't!

Now that want to repeat that disaster and Lying and Begging the American people to give them a chance to do it again.

[Angry Dragon]

2. she and bush thought Muammar Gaddafi was a good leader and friend of theirs'

[theinquisitivechad]

5. Well. . .

Gaddafi definitely wanted to be a friend of hers. . .if you know what I mean. . .

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/10/more-horrendously-creepy-details-about-qaddafis-condoleezza-rice

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Have they no sense of shame?

How dare they try to pull this shit again.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Obviously, they do not.

I hope Colin Powell was listening to Condi's lies and obfuscations. It would help if he again endorsed President Obama.

[GallopingGhost]

4. QUICK!!!

Let's invade South Korea!!!