Posted on 08/06/2006 6:00:22 PM PDT by Pokey78
CONDOLEEZZA RICE is coming under sustained criticism on several fronts.
Some, even within the White House, have started referring to the “Condi Rice show” — suggesting that the Secretary of State spends too much time on television talking to a domestic audience and not enough in international negotiations.
A senior Republican expressed unhappiness at the way that she was snubbed recently by Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese Prime Minister. “Henry Kissinger would never have been turned away from any capital,” he told The Times.
Richard Armitage, who was deputy to her predecessor, Colin Powell, has publicly attacked her for ignoring opportunities to negotiate with Syria. “We get a little lazy, I think, when we spend all our time as diplomats talking to our friends and not to our enemies,” he said.
There has also been criticism from the neo-conservative flank, which has appeared marginalised by Dr Rice’s emphasis on multilateral negotiations to settle the stand-off with Iran. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, has accused the Administration of pursuing policies that had allowed North Korea to test missiles with impunity and that had left the regime in Tehran “sitting pretty”.
The British Government remains a staunch admirer of Dr Rice’s hard-headed moderation, however. Mr Blair and Dr Rice believe that the crisis could yet help revive the Middle East peace process — provided Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority President, can emerge with their authority intact and are not undermined or replaced by extremists.
Apparently he's forgotten how Warren Christopher was humiliated by the unelected thug Hafez el-Assad. But that was different, I guess.
The state dept is whimpy!
This is old, just another attack Condi thread. She's explained that Rich Armitage was one of the last to speak to the Syrians, and it didn't have any effect. She said that it's not that no one is talking to them, it's that they don't respond.
The godless liberals are just trying to get her off TV because they don't want her message to get out. They don't want America to have the truth, because they know that as Reagan said,"You can trust the American people", and the people would agree with Condi and the left would be out. So now they're just trying to get one of the right's best spokespeople off stage.
The lefties hate all Republicans, "moderates" or conservatives.
The ones who differ with Bush like Hegel, McCain and Specter getting the only love or affection, but only a little.
Don't be fooled into thinking someone is another Ronald Reagan because the libs hate them. They hated Nixon and Ford when I was young. Both men gave us taxes, spending and big government.
We need smaller government conservative leadership now in this county and in the Republican party. I don't see it in Condi Rice.
As I've posted on a similar thread, I think Dr. Rice was very brave to face the Islamofascists, but no matter what she may have to say to them, they will not listen to a woman. Historically, they will not even listen to an infidel man. Diplomacy is not the route to success with them. Truly, I wish this was not the case.
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The only woman that the arabs would listen to was Golda M. She had the power to kick their collective a$$es and they knew it.
So they DID listen, and it had nothing to do with gender, but power.
I agree, but Golda was far older and had thick ankles.
Or a black. There have been many references in the media regarding the racial tone of nastiness directed toward Condi. Savages, all of them!
The fact that an arab would listen to a woman at all is amazing. Having seen many black movivg objects (BMOs) or shadow women as they are sometimes refered to and the way that they are demeaned, one immediately knows how they fit in to their society.
I agree.
Just another example of Rice's incompetence.
It's sad.
Until the President gets the tools of foreign policy all working on the same problem at the same time, this kind of criticism - and that leveled at Rumsfield - will continue.
US foreign policy is in a shambles, similar to the one that plagued the military services until Goldwater Nichols in 1986.
Only a unified command will solve this problem.
Till then, the cabinet secretaries will wander around doing their own thing without regard for the abilities and preferences of each other.
It's sad.
Criticized by Armitage & Kritstol? I am loving this woman.
Condi acting like a nincompoop. The State disease must be catchy.
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