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AS a college student myself, I applaud your walking out of class. But I think on this one, your professor was right. Rice is an academician at best, not a national security advisor. She was a writer, but if you can actually find something she wrote, she was never alone, she always had help. Look at her areas of concentration prior to being appointed, she was an expert on Russia. She had no forward looking capabilities to see that Russia was not a threat and China and other areas needed to be "on the map". Tom Ridge was basically given her job, with a fancier title, to be the "pair" that she isn't. How are Homeland Security and National Security different?

Tom Ridge was basically given her job, with a fancier title, to be the "pair" that she isn't. How are Homeland Security and National Security different?

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."