Please help me find a resume of Condalizza Rice

That's one of the things Bush loves about her. On top of her other brilliant skills, she's a world-class "tap dancer." The master of the unresponsive response, she can drive an interviewer nuts.

You're kidding, right? Condi Rice speaks privately with the President every day. Tom Ridge occasionally gets a form letter from the Oval Office addressed to "Occupant."

I congratulate you for being Rice's #1 fan, or a relative. As soon as someone shows me how she is/was qualified to be our National Security Advisor, I'll take back my comments so you can sleep easier at night. Who was fired for 9-11? She should have been back at Stanford on 9-12.

I congratulate you for being Rice's #1 fan, or a relative. As soon as someone shows me how she is/was qualified to be our National Security Advisor, I'll take back my comments so you can sleep easier at night. Who was fired for 9-11? She should have been back at Stanford on 9-12.

You know, normally I'd just respond to this drivel by pointing out the fact that Al Qaeda had the strategic initiative of time, place, and method of attack from its founding in the early 1990's. However, you seem to be looking for someone in America to blame, instead of giving the enemy the grudging respect he deserves.

They're talented people. You're underestimating them. You also fail to recall that it was Rice who came up with a war plan to fight these guys before 9/11, when in the entire previous decade, it was common practice to call them "cowards" and pretend that they'd go away.

And like all of her critics, you underestimate her, which is a huge mistake, as each and every one of her previous opponents would testify.

'Tis best to go through life and play the fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

However, you seem to be looking for someone in America to blame, instead of giving the enemy the grudging respect he deserves.

You make great points and I appreciate the dialogue, rather than the last guy's answer, which was garbage, defending her like a loyal relative or fan club member with no facts. I agree that the enemy was far more deviant in getting their "job" done than we were in our ability to stop them. It has been well documented that 8 years of Impeached President Clintoon was solely responsible for leaving us practically defenseless, read David Horowitz.

Bear in mind that it was Rice who authored the National Security Strategy finding that was issued to Congress two weeks ago. Behind the high sounding words of our "unique" place in history is a ruthless understanding of the role of power in international relations.

Rice is a disciple of Hans Morgenthau, whose doctrine was simple: above all things, keep in mind the National Interest.

There is an intellectual theme running through all of our actions during the first two years of the Bush Administration: pursuit of the national interest. The Kyoto scam was the first casualty of this policy. The ICC was yet another. Our singleminded pursuit of Saddam is but another.

You would not have had a policy that reserves unto the United States the right to act preemptively before a danger gathers under the multilateralists who ran the Toon's Administration.

In his article about Rice in The New Yorker, Nicolas Leman asserts that Rice is becoming more of a moralist (another name for baleful Wilsonianism). I just don't see it in the NSS that she drafted. Sure, there's a lot of nice stuff in there about allies and friends, and seizing the opportunity to remake the world for democracy, but the meat of the matter for Rice is National Interest.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Let's see if we can clear a few things up.

I'm looking for information related to the year (1978) that Rice spent studying in the Soviet Union.

AFAIK, Rice never spent a year in the Soviet Union. She did make trips to Moscow throughout the Cold War era as a specialist in Soviet Affairs. There is a story from 1987, written by a correspondent from Izvestiya that describes how she should be home driving men mad, but is instead in Moscow discussing throw-weights.

I want to know what took her to Moscow, when in 1978 the only westerners studying there were either communists or sympathisers.

With respect, bollocks. Plenty of folks went to Russia in those days, mostly academics and tourists. The Sovs had a good tourist trade with Europe in those days, as well.

I also want to know why it is that her tenure in Russia is listed on none of her bios.

You proceed from the assumption that she spent a whole year in Russia.

I also want to know why her mentor was a known communist.

Mad Maddie's father, Korbel, was not a communist, nor a known communist. He was a refugee from Hungary and very anti-communist. No Che posters on his wall. It's a shame that the good sense appears to have left the Korbel family, settling on Rice instead of Albright.

Unlike most, I don't believe the Soviets ever left power. I also don't believe their goals for world dmination and the destruction of the US have changed.I don't think much is what it seems to people I've read on this board.

I do. The Soviets collapsed in 1991, but power devolved back to where it always truly was, with the KGB and the Army. Putin is merely a manifestation of Russian nationalism with the "velvet fist" kept in reserved. We are not his enemy; Putin knows this. His enemies lie to the south in the Islamic world.

I've also been told that her brother had the butt end of an American flag driven through his face during the Boston busing strike. If this is true, and the incident from her childhood in which a friend lost her life in a church bombing is true, and the fact that she studied under communists in Russia is true, and if it's true that her mentor was a communist, what in the hell are you people doing talking about Condi rice for President?

Because none of what you say is true.

1. Condi Rice is an only child. She never had a brother, much less one who had the flag either shoved in his face or up his buttocks.

2. She never studied under the Communists in Russia.

3. She did lose a friend to an act of domestic terrorism.

4. Josef Korbel was not a communist.

Other than that, I hope the Russkies don't nuke us.

Russia will nuke us and we'll blame al Qaeda.

Okay, so I spoke too soon.

Wake up!

Fight Back!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Biography of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor

Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.

In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.

May 2004

Rice is a disciple of Hans Morgenthau

Didn't the Morgenthau plan for the occupation of Germany call for completely stripping away all of Germany's industrial base and making it into an agrarian nation that could never threaten anyone again?