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