I don't know what happens to someone when they go to work for the State Department, but they seem to lose all common sense or understanding of the nature of the threats facing the country. They think terrorists and rogues can be made to change their ways through endless jabber-jawing. I don't get it.
I was just thinking along the same lines:
"Officials said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice initially sought to halt Israel's massive retaliation against Hizbullah, which abducted two Israeli soldiers on July 12. They said Ms. Rice, in twice-a-day phone calls, pressed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to significantly reduce the operation to prevent casualties and maintain the Lebanese government."
When she first came in she was SO SMART, I was in awe, and then, I don't know if it's the job, or just the subject of Israel and the Middle East, that just turns people into stupid shadows of themselves.
Is it possible that Condi knows its her job to play "good cop" to the President's "bad cop"? Obviously the analogy doesn't exactly translate, but she just seems to smart for something like this.
They think terrorists and rogues can be made to change their ways through endless jabber-jawing. I don't get it.
The world has changed, war has changed, the enemy is different, the Geneva convention is out of date and doesn't seem to be relevant in today's world, FISA is out of date, The defense department, CIA, FBI and other agencies are being revamped but the State Department plods along totally unaware that everything around them has changed. Negotiation, jabber-jawing and subtle hidden hints dropped over high tea is all they know.