Condy Rice just doesn’t match her position of State Secretary to say nothing about higher ones in the top power hierarchy. She speaks Russian and talks football and plays Dvorak and does other things relating to good PR. But when it comes to the stuff that a professor-politician should be really good at she is oddly flat footed! She used to be president Bush’s fitness buddy and foreign policy tutor and so she is staying now. There have been too many failures in foreign policy matters Condy is in charge of. The biggest of them is Iraq. Militarily it was superb in Iraq but politically…
Perhaps it’s ‘cause Rice has shelved her own manifesto in Foreign Politics voiced in 2000. It was classic realist position: American diplomacy “should focus on great-power politics rather than on other countries’ internal affairs”. She wanted to transform Iraq into western-type democracy just on the spot. And here we are. Now she’s doing the same wrong thing with China ‘lacking democracy and abusing human rights’. Presently she is firmly set ‘to force China into democratic reforms via democratic revolution’. It looks childish of a politician of her rank. Worsening relations with China is no bargain.
I hear Condy is after occupying vice-president position. Is her clampdown on China kind of PR ploy to leave some rivals in the dust and get more scores? It looks like a competition between her and senator MacCaine so excessively critical of Russian human rights record. Are they rivals? Anyway their criticism has nothing to do with real politics unlike the results of it.
