..BUMP!...
Posted on 11/29/2004 5:32:41 AM PST by condi2008
American foreign policy will soon have a new face—and much of the world is already doodling in red horns and a curled moustache.
President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state sent shudders down the world's spine. With his soft-spoken manner and moderate image, Mr. Powell was widely seen as the voice of sanity in American foreign relations. His successor, on the other hand, is viewed as a presidential clone, a hard-liner who believes America should run roughshod over the international community.
"Among the most pessimistic conjectures made when George W. Bush gained reelection was that with a mandate, he'd keep Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and nominate Rice to replace Powell," the French newspaper Le Monde said. "The second of those has now come true. . . . It is bad news for European leaders."
Italy's La Stampa worried that Ms. Rice's appointment marked the "confirmation of a more aggressive diplomacy. . . . We know her programme—the Great Middle East, confrontation with Iran, zero Palestine, zero Europe—and she is not a moderate."
The Kommersant newspaper in Russia was even more dismayed. "Now the hawks will attack us," it opined.
For all the hand-wringing overseas, however, Ms. Rice may face her toughest audience closer to home. Once confirmed by the Senate, the former academic will take over the oldest U.S. cabinet department and one of the most difficult to tame. The department's 40,000 foreign-service employees in Washington and abroad oversee everything from civilian contractors in Baghdad to international adoptions in Mongolia. They are used to running the day-to-day machinery of U.S. public diplomacy their own way as administrations come and go.
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If Ms. Rice ends up surprising critics who see her as a one-dimensional warmonger, John Danforth, her colleague at the United Nations, may end up disappointing moderates in search of a new Colin Powell.
We've come a long way from the world ass-kissing of the Clinton administration.
I am happy that the foreign world seems to fear our new Secretary. Only good can come of it.
A strong Black woman in a high-profile leadership position, and not a kind word from the Black community or feminists...what a suprise!
" a hard-liner who believes America should run roughshod over the international community"
You got a problem with that, bunky?
Ass-kissing Clintoon days are over.
Why are you surprised. Only blacks who pimp the racial issue are welcome to be successful by other blacks. Bill Cosby seems to be the only black allowed to be successful and not be attacked, and I am not so sure how long that will last now that he is telling them the truth.
They are condemning Dr. Rice before she has set foot in the office. I sure hope when she does get to the office she cleans it out like the CIA is being cleaned out now.
but they called madeline albright "strong" and "Dynamic". Condi isn't portrayed nearly as positively. wonder why. NOT!
So, Condi Rice is the voice of insanity or by implication she is insane too. The left has lost it.
No surprise there. They'd like her back on the plantation asap.
-"President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state sent shudders down the world's spine."-
Warms my heart to read those words. Let's hope she doesn't try to overcompensate and become too diplomatic. Yesterday's diplomacy is tomorrow's tragedy - right here on our own shores.
The Bunky Nancy French newspaper Le Monde.
I wasn't suprised, only sarcastic.
I can hear Condi now, "Jacque Chirac can kiss my black ass"!
God I love that woman.
the former academic will take over the oldest U.S. cabinet department and one of the most difficult to tame
This and running the affairs of state at such a critical stage of world turmoil, it seems insurmountable.
Don't say much for Colin Powell does it..
The BAD guys just LOVE Colin Powell and John McLaim...
What a concept. Identifying the republicans the liberals love and even those they go easy on.. Should paint quite a picture.. They know the weakest links and who should be FIRED better than the republicans do.. The republicans have that old "I'm a unite'er not a divider" disease.. and are pretty much blinded to reality.. from all the blindfolded group hugs.. but the odor of collaborator.. on some of them is RIPE..
Sorry if I was unclear. My remark was directed at the writer of the article, not at you.
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